could it be true, now what do i do?

hi everyone, it's been a while since i posted anything here because i was too busy mourning the loss of my beloved Sonar. my first question is, does my lifetime upgrade still work?
second, will there be a formal announcement that Sonar has been resurrected? just in time for Easter, how appropriate.
over the years i've asked many questions on this forum. most of which have been really dumb, however, i always received help from people a lot smarter than i.   
i hope to hear from all of you soon.
thanks,
jp

Yes, by all means do some reading. No need for questions which have been asked several times already. The answers are already here. you don't even have to google...

I for one am hoping that the always upgrading/never finished model that gave birth to the lifetime upgrade concept will not be resurrected. I sincerely doubt that the new owner will be willing to carry forward with this commitment to a select group of former Cakewalk customers, although if he has enough income from other sources, and a low enough investment in Cakewalk stuff to justify it, he may make it a freebie for all. I was most happy when features were bundled, tested and released as roughly yearly upgrades, and bug fixes were released as they were completed. It is not my impression that rolling updates improved the stability of the application, or resulted in carefully prioritized and planned choices of which features were to be developed and released. A case in point is the looooong time it took to introduce a workable ripple editing; the ability to move all of the tracks of a composition easily and flawlessly is so integral to arranging that it should have been priority number one. Instead I get the impression that work was being done on much less critical but easier to implement features just so there would be something in the monthly update basket.
 
I expect most of the work being done currently is to integrate the application tightly with the BandLab products, so that stuff being done on one platform leads users to employ the other. Can you say synergy? After that, I expect more effort at making the stuff just work. Musicians want applications that work more like a toaster than a computer, and BandLab is not positioned to appeal to computer geeks. SONAR is probably waaay to complicated already for that market, so I would guess that the direction to simple song, pop music, looping type features will be the way it is going to go. Those few SONAR users who are using  it to compose and audition their symphonies will probably not see major efforts to improve their workflow in the new era. At any rate, constant change is not something that will be greatly appreciated by those either using or supporting the new application.