I've doubted right along that Bioware was making a Star Wars MMO.. their early job hiring descriptions were for those enthuisastic for the Fantasy Genre and NOT Sci-Fi.

As far as someone else doing a Star Wars game, meh, maybe they will, maybe they won't. Is there really room for 2 Star Wars MMO's out there? Can anyone even legitimately get that license other than SOE? It would seem to me that if I held the license for the Star Wars MMO, I certainly wouldn't be letting anyone else make one to draw all my players away.