not sure if it has been mentioned before but i read this posting:
http://www.laserist.org/pressreleases.htm
April 2011
New "Beyond" laser show software from Pangolin; to be released July 16 2011
ORLANDO, Fla - April 14, 2011 – At the recent Prolight + Sound tradeshow in Frankfurt, Germany, Pangolin Laser Systems President and CTO William Benner Jr. announced a release date for BEYOND, the company's all new laser show software for professionals: July 16th, 2011, which is the 42nd anniversary of the launch of the Saturn V rocket, which took astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon for the very first time.
William R. Benner, Jr. choose this date to honor his father William R. Benner, Sr. who worked on NASA's Mission Control computers, and directly contributed to the success of the Apollo 11 flight.
The new BEYOND software will run on the existing QM2000 hardware (which currently runs the LD2000 software) and also on the Flashback 3 hardware (which currently runs the QuickShow software).
All existing LD2000 shows will run on BEYOND. Pangolin is working on new network hardware for BEYOND, based on a recently-developed technology called "distributed computing".
No official pricing has been released, but the company did comment that anyone who purchases an LD2000 system between April 7th (the start of the Prolight + Sound tradeshow) and July 16th will receive the new BEYOND software for free.
(Added to this page April 25 2011. The full Beyond press release is here.)