An article about 2 companies arguing who's better. I must have missed the part where they actually debate, or brawl, about the future of IDS. Seems the biggest technical thought put forth was, "your performance sucks". Maybe that means IDS is headed to a future where performance will suck less. Yay.
Competition is a good thing. Snort has been the only IDS in the market (I'm aware of Bro) and now there is competition in Suricata. The problem I see is that Suricata folks confusing "improvement" and "innovation." IDS, IMHO, still need innovations.