
Look at the CS forum, people complaining about the lack of support and unfixed bugs. You learn these programs and then the manufacturer trashes them of doesn't give support. I'm leery to invest time in CS even with the price drop. They offered it to me for $2500 several years ago. Then there was their major price cut of Designer which pissed off everyone who paid 10k or so for it. Altium gave us this big story how they were going to develop and improve it but just trashed it completely.

I was using CM then and it was a decent program in the Protel platform. Dave, Thanks for the heads up! Altium scares me, I remember when they bought the original CircuitMaker around 2000 or so.
