I have noticed that the sale of pbp3 licences (silver at $25us) are pretty slow, maybe it is dead.
http://www.dontronics-shop.com/pic-b...bs-30-off.html
pbp3 excels at tight fast code for 8bit core pics ,but much more feature rich and powerful chips are so cheap now that "bloatware" is not just restricted to the pc market . people are happy to use a 16mips atmel-mega328 with 2k of ram and 32k flash to blink a few leds.
waste waste waste. what happened to using the right tool for the job (just kidding ) @< $5 a chip why not kill it to death