Very good point. I can only assume that their resources are so constrained that they don't have the ability to provide the level of training and support truly n

Very good point. I can only assume that their resources are so constrained that they don't have the ability to provide the level of training and support truly needed. There is a chasm that has developed, perhaps dating back to when many of the commercial Lisp vendors switch focus to Java, that needs to be closed. As you said, it is tragic in many ways.