Interesting,

Although as a person who went through a similar project some years ago I didn't expect them to get somewhere quickly. As I remember it, creating a new class took 1000's of man hours by a dedicated group of people. And even then you'd steer nerve reckingly close to the threshold of collapsing the class halve the time.

For a project of that magnitude to succeed requires a huge effort and some good old fashioned luck at the right moments.

This is the reason why we see so very little new classes succeed at all.

Wouter