Are Adobe going to continue with Business Catalyst?

I have used BC for a few years now and I am just about start a new project, but is BC the right product? I have had issues with the support getting less responsive over the last 12 months, really slow response times compared to a few years ago and woeful compared to the likes of GoDaddy for instance, I have also noticed BC is not really fetured on Adobe.com as much as it once was. Simple question if I start the project with BC do Adobe have plans to scale down the product and support further?

David, in terms of the BC stuff, there is so much about BC, a section on Adobe was not enough.
www.businesscatalyst.com has been running for a while now in its new form.
All the documentation is here - BC Help & support and quite extensive.
You can read the blog as well and you can see a lot of new things are rolling out right now through the BC.Next stuff.

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