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We are currently investigating use of Output Designer 5.6 and Central Output Server 5.6 - with good success in our prototyping efforts.
Adobe sales is now reporting that the new version of Central Pro, to be released in May/June 2007, will see a list price of around $40K, a hike of more than 100%. Have anyone else heard about this? Therefore we are seriously considering alternatives to this combination - any help would be appreciated,

Yes. It looks like my worst fears regarding this software have been realized. According to the "update" page on Adobe's site "LiveCycle Output ES" is the upgrade path for "Central Pro Output Server 5.6".
http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/upgrade.html
with the footnote of "Available as an optional migration for maintenance and support customers who wish to move to LiveCycle ES".
The current product supports data files in XML format. I wonder if the new software will support "field nominated" files or will all current "DAT" file creation software that makes field nominated files need to be changed.
This is quite an about face for this software. Years ago there was a single designer used for both the filler and server-based printing software. Then they separated it into two distinct products, removing the filler features from Output Designer. Now they are dropping the Output Designer product altogether and having the LiveCycle filler product be the designer for the server-based processing.
We are going to have to have a long & serious discussion regarding whether we can continue with the direction Adobe is going. When Adobe switched the filler product to what is now LiveCycle Designer they did not support the immigration of the files from the predecessor software - particularly where they dropped support of VBScript. Now I'm expected to believe they will adequately support conversion of Output Designer files.
The LiveCycle change to a new object model and scripting languages was bad enough. It also came in the middle of our conversion so we could not follow along. If we follow along with Adobe now we'll have staff from both sides (filler & printing) needing to learn everything over again.
Our original conversion/development of our 100s of forms took years and we are just now to the point we can begin doing some serious enhancements. To go into conversion mode again (and this soon) would be a major and expensive undertaking, likely taking several years again. This is job security that I just don't need since I'm retiring in less than 2 years.

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