I agree with that, the advice aboe telling me to go around and find second hand macs is stupid, we want new gear with guarentees. we bought and continue to buy 12.5 as we expand, to upgrade to VW2008 would cost us ?4000k which is to much for us at the moment (which i wouldn't upgrade to until 13.1 release anyway)
we don't have the time or inclination to grub around for botched fixes, and I don't want to have to spend the IT time re-installing OSs when we have work to be doing
When we buy vectorworks we thought we were getting an on-going relationship, we continue to buy their software. they've just dumped us.
of course as they are well aware, for mac based users there isn't much in the way of choice