Was pondering the same question just this morning.
March seems like a good guess - followed shortly after by the release of Solaris (April) then shortly after that, an announcement regarding new hardware perhaps???
I would argue though that 4 months is hardly soon (Dec-Mar)!
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know.
SooN :-
a term favoured by a group of German game programmers when asked about release dates for 1.9. In English this translates roughly into "Never" amongst the frustrated gamers.
in IRC :
bloke A "hey Deffy, whens 1.9 coming?"
Deffy "Soon!"
bloke A " dude its been soon since Xmas "2002"