Ordnance Survey - Ed Parsons

The recent announcement that Ed Parsons, CTO at Ordnance Survey, is to leave leaves questions unanswered. The Agreed Text on Ed's blog suggests more. However the question must be asked, is his leaving related to the recent announcement that OS were parting company with Tadpole and the non completion of Phoenix? Rather sad that someone with such vision pays the price and of course will be si difficuklt to replace. Ed is a visionary of such proportions that OS need him more now than ever with stuff like Inspire etc still around, time will tell!