I think that's something that is not only in the hands of LL, honestly. There are thousands of us actively logging in every day, and more to come as time passes. Some of us will be corporate, and some of us will not be. What direction SL as a whole takes as a result will be very much dependant on what *we* choose to bring to the table, what *we* choose to pay attention to.

Will corporate deals benefit LL? Of course. But those corps are only coming because there appears to be a market for them. Some of us welcome them, some of us don't care, and others dislike them vehemently. But corporations, whether Cory was to have stayed or not, would still be coming to SL.

From a the perspective of someone who both works and plays in-world for extended periods of time, I look to the future and hope that it brings greater scalability, both from an architectural and a managerial point of view.

Will this happen with greater or lesser difficulty now that Cory is gone? I suppose we can only speculate.