Hiya.
Y'know, the pricing of $2k to $7k wouldn't be all that bad....
if they would just stop comming out with a new "upgrade" every frickin' 8 months! 
The other alternative is that they
keep supporting, fully, at least the last 3 versions in stead of just popping out an 8.5 version, charging a grand or two to 'upgrade' and then pretty much ignoring everyone who uses version 7 or earlier. I'm *really* getting sick of the money game.
Er...sorry for the mini-rant there. I'm just getting fed up with all these companies (which are slowly being bought by larger ones...
not good!) who think people (from hobbyist's to companies) are made of money.