February 28, 2002. Zuken has announced a half price upgrade offer to the full version of Cadstar 5.0 Gold Plus, to existing Cadstar DOS users. The offer will be available through May 2002, after which a traditional upgrade path will no longer be available.

"Zuken would like to see all its Cadstar customers benefit from the features of this flagship product," commented Cadstar Business Unit Manager, Mark Thompson. "Using Cadstar 5.0 is the most effective way for customers to ensure they can be first to market with their products. The benefits of using Cadstar 5.0 Gold Plus are unsurpassed and through this offer we are providing our remaining Cadstar DOS-based users with a very cost effective opportunity to upgrade."

Future versions of Cadstar will be backward compatible with existing DOS data but new data will no longer be available for output in DOS. From June 2002 customers with any version of Cadstar for DOS will no longer be able to upgrade to the latest version, as only complete products at full list price will be made available.

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