Kubotek USA is the company that bought out Cadkey, and updated the MCAD software as KeyCreator. Fans of Cadkey have been die-hard, and so Kubotek is offering them a discount to "effectively retain CADKEY functionality as they change and modernize their Windows computing environments," reports the press release.
Robert Bean heads up Kubotek USA and says, "CADKEY customers asked us to develop specific capabilities before they would take a serious look at adding KeyCreator. Now CADKEY users can keep their existing licenses."
(I know how those Cadkey users feel. I keep using PageMaker for typesetting, even though it has been abandoned by Adobe, who offers some new-fangled software in its place. I am too efficient with PageMaker to want to take the time to learn new software that might lack some features I require.)
The new Kubotek CADKEY program keeps the familiar CADKEY-like interface and a semi-automated conversion of existing CADL programs. The program offers amnesty for CADKEY users regardless of current license status: discount on maintenance, run-anywhere license file, and discounts worth US$2,500.
Details at cadkey.com/extend; program terminates March 15, 2006, which is when your chance to look seriously at KeyCreator ends.
Correction: Kubotek is offering CADKEY users KeyCreator, not KeyCAD.
KeyCAD is currently a US trademark of Keystone Retaining Wall Systems, Inc. The name KeyCAD was also used by SoftKey in the mid-nineties for a value priced PC-based CAD product.
CADKEY technotes and a user-to-user CADKEY support forum will continue to be hosted by Kubotek USA after March 15th (www.cadkey.com).
Posted by: John McCullough | Jan 16, 2006 at 09:19 AM