I don't think it's the owner that was saying "wait until February," but rather just one of the other employees - one that wrote many of the original tutorials and was hired on because of that.
It was PickledOnion (Paul) who made the claim about announcements coming in February. He was promoted to a management position (he refers to himself as their "GM" in this thread: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=4348...) and appears to be the, or one of the key decision makers at Slicehost now. In that thread, he says that he accepts responsibility for Slicehost languishing during the course of the last year.
