Bad news (rumor)

Just read this on Autodesk's Combustion-news forum:

[Dennis Summers]I know that there has been a lot of talk on this issue, and I figure I may as well comment. Without naming names, or going into too much detail, I have it on good authority (an autodesk rep) that combustion will eventually "fade away". Which is a good way to put it based on what I heard. This person gave me the usual careful qualifiers as to how anything could change, but it seems likely that autodesk intends on toxik to eventually replace combustion. I too love combustion and think that it fills a niche that nothing else at this point can replace, but it doesn't look good.

If this turns out to be true, then I certainly hope that Autodesk plans to offer Toxik at Combustion's price point. If they pull Combustion without offering a resonable replacement, then I hope they die a very quick and painful death. Maybe I'll go lurk on the edit* forum just to see how it feels...

*sigh*

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