Good question. As far as I know they haven't officially dropped the
product, but...
* At previous Meckler conferences, they've given sessions on how to
use CDK; this year they were absent.
* I was chairing a panel at Meckler, and tried to get someone from
Autodesk to speak about CDK; they declined.
* They weren't exhibiting CDK on the show floor.
* It's my understanding that a large number of people who were working
on CDK are no longer at Autodesk; I spoke to one person in particular
who had been on the CDK team and has been laid off.
* The folks at Micro Green (who do Navigator) indicated that release
2.0 of CDK was probably going to be the final one; Autodesk would continue
to support existing customers, but was not planning any new development
on CDK as a commercial product (though they may continue to use it
in-house).
I hope that they're planning to continue developing CDK, but based on
everything I've heard it does not look very promising.
> Well... I hope they won't, because I am using it and I am really
> enthusiast..
I haven't used it myself, but it looks like a well-thought-out design.
> even if it is VERY difficult to master...
Yes, and the fact that the latest version apparently requires a very, very
specific development environment doesn't help. As I recall, you have to
be running Windows NT 3.5, Visual C++ 2.0, have 32 meg of RAM, and have
several thousand dollars to spend on CDK itself. All that in *addition*
to being a C++ programmer.
Small market...
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