Digging Deeper - Second Life's Cory Out - New CEO 2008 In?

I was looking at the signup & population stats for Second Life and I just started surfing links from there, winding up at the an old defunct Second Life Wiki: http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Life_Through_The_Ages/
There I found in the History Section the following:

3D Engine

Apparently, LL didn't create the core 3D engine but, instead, RealityPrime did:

• Developed core 3D engine for Linden Lab for their fully-modifiable
  on-line streaming 3D world/game called Second Life.
• Developed real-time "global illumination" (simplified radiosity) with thousands of movable lights and shadows, optimized visibility culling, and advanced hardware rendering optimizations.
• Developed fully procedural object creation and editing, optimized character animation, and other
  special effects.

Now I do not know the history of this Wiki or if it's info is correct but I had to wonder just who/what is RealityPrime ?
Off I went to see and ta da what do I find?
http://www.realityprime.com/articles/cory-out Take a look. Below is quoted from that page:

Cory Out

Posted on December 14th, 2007 by avi

I was very disappointed to hear the latest news from Linden Lab(s), maker of Second Life. In various purported internal Linden emails (which look legit to me,
knowing their respective styles), Cory Ondrejka is out, apparently by Philip’s hand.
[Note: everything here is speculation, as I haven’t talked to anyone involved, nor do I want to wade into the alleged technical disputes at this juncture.]

Now, I don’t worry for Cory — I figure he’s fully vested and that stock should easily be worth many [non-virtual] millions by this time next year, not to mention the nice severance package I’d expect them to offer — Linden would need to do something to get him to agree not to compete (or say anything) for a year or two at least. And I imagine he’ll either start or be recruited to join a promising small company within milliseconds of hitting the street (but maybe take some time off to be with the kids — you’ve earned it).

But what I worry about is Linden itself. To be upfront, I’m not exactly happy with them lately. It might have something to do with my offering to come back to help solve some of those lingering technical problems everyone complains about, and my subsequently getting snubbed for whatever reason. But it might also have to do with my long-term disappointment in some design decisions they’ve made over the years, decisions that actually kept me from joining the company as an employee in the first place, way back in 2001.

I can safely say that of the decisions I do roundly applaud, most of these came from or were championed by Cory. He’s the kind of leader that anyone would love to work for or with. He listens and understands. And his ego does not extend beyond his skin.

My best guess is that this has more to do with the rumored liquidity event for 2008 than any technical dispute. I expect that Linden will soon bring in a CTO with a Wall St. pedigree, if they haven’t lined that up already, or Philip will take over the CTO role and bring in a shiny new CEO to guide the sale or offering (not that Philip isn’t capable of doing either role, but to investors, money is money and more is more).

RealityPrime is ? I quote from their about page:

"RealityPrime is an independent R&D consulting service providing specialized in-depth assistance in real-time 3D graphics, games, and simulation to major companies since 1997. Clients have included: Disney, B.V.R., Zona, Picaboo, and LindenLab (makers of SecondLife)......
Avi Bar-Zeev has fifteen years professional experience in 3D entertainment and visual simulation, developing large successful software projects in the on-line, rides & games, and vis-sim domains. He is a co-founder of Keyhole, maker of Earthviewer (which later became Google Earth ).."

I am reporting this here, because though I have no idea how valid this all is, Avi Bar-Zeev' s blog contains many other posts of interest as well, sheading for me new light into Linden Lab. It is obvious there is no love lost here, or should I say, I taste sour grapes, but Avi is not an outsider nor does he appear to be vested in SL, like most of us "residents" are.

Again like my last post here "Were is Ray Ozzie?" more questions then answers...