I too downloaded Komodo in October with the intention of evaluating it for its worth in a production environment.
I was not pleased, but I have not given up hope on the future of Komodo.
1.) I do not like being forced to download Python. If I am never going to use python, I don't want to be required to obtain it for functionality I will never require.
2.) The tracing portion of the program looked alittle neglected, and it actually caused my Win2k machine to slowly crash in a nasty manner due to resource consumption.
At this time there was nothing that interested me enough for the pluses to outweigh the minuses. Uninstalling Komodo also caused my machine to bite the dust once.
I still think the idea is sound, and I think active state is alright. My money is not on the production release, but the release after.