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My understanding is that Adobe isn't dropping support for Fireworks -- but initially, both Illustrator and Photoshop have had a head start on FXG support, and so it will take some time to get Fireworks support into Flash Catalyst. However, there are still ways to use Fireworks with Flash Catalyst -- Doug Winnie has two great videos, which you can find here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/tutorials/

Mordy

I am very disappointed with the so-called workflow between Fireworks and Catalyst as shown in the 2 video tutorials. It is clumsy and awkward to say the least. To bring in a simple graphics from FW, you would need to save as fxg and then import the fxg into FC. That should be a simple drag and drop or copy and paste action. And not round-trip editing with FW either.

FW png suports multiple pages which is ideal to represent states of an app. FC would do well to support FW native png. What a waste opportunity!

If Adobe finally decides to use part of Fireworks's ".PNG" engine, they shouldn't have to introduce .FXG into the Fireworks product line, since the onus is on Flash Catalyst to port Fireworks, not the other way around.

Using the Fireworks engine, features such as "Pages", or perhaps even Fireworks's "States", would allow for more seamless “.PNG” porting into Catalyst. Also, doing so, would eliminate all those steps one has to take to merely generate states within Catalyst—saving UI designers time by giving them the option to simply make adjustments to the Catalyst timeline. Not only is this faster, but it makes more logical sense!

Ahh...I am beginning to think Adobe’s in over their heads with this one.

So in order to edit a Fireworks native file from FC, I have to open the file in Illustrator first?

sigh . . .