Is Adobe Dropping Visual Communicator??

I purchased VC3 and used it for a live presentation in front of 300 people yesterday. The tool is AMAZING, but IMO it is highly "sensitive" and subject to GPFs for a variety of reasons. I'm going to outline the problems I experienced in a separate thread.
My question for this thread is: Is Adobe planning on continuing development for VC? It looks like it hasn't been maintained in over 1 year, no patches, no updates. Before purchasing, the pre-sales folks and even tech. folks seemed to know very little about the product.
What is the future for VC? From what I can see, it is the *only* product of its kind out there, and I sure would love to see it stick around.
Anyone know?

Hi Chris... thanks for the reply. Seeing as this is an "AdobeForums" site, I'd love to see someone from Adobe give an official answer.
Yes, I first learned of the tool/product when Serious Magic still owned it.
Although I too could easily start a "wish list", a "maintenance release" would suffice so I don't struggle through a live presentation which could impact me and my family's livelihood.
If they aren't going to maintain it, they ought to pull it from the shelves so people like me don't shell out $500+ just to be humbled in front of 300 people with nowhere to go for support. I'm quite disappointed with this reality, but still love the product and the concept for the most part.
I'll check out that other URL... thanks again!
:-) Rob

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Apart from the poor support, I have tested the Trial version and it would not make sense to use the application in its cirrent form.
In a ten minute period using 2 cameras as a test, the application froze and crashed four times. Not acceptable as reliability is crucial.
The test was done on a Windows 7 64 bit machine with 4 physical Xeon Quad core 3GHZ processors and 32 GB RAM with a 2GB Graphics card, so performance was not the issue.
the application is just not stable.
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I am looking at:
Adobe Visual Communicator 3
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All of these provide the possible live switching I need.
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I can hook up 2 -3 Sony A1 HD cameras in SD no problem and running it though FMS is fine. During test streams clicking on the cameras using the mini switcher is straight forward.
howevr I am struggling to work out how to do the following:
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