How much longer will Appleworks live?

I was chatting with Scott earlier today when we began to wonder: Does Apple still bundle Appleworks with new Macs? With the focus being on the iApps these days, you just don't hear about Appleworks anymore. A quick search of Apple.com revealed that the eMac, iBook, Mac mini and iMac do, in fact, ship with Appleworks installed. It can also be purchased as a boxed application.

I wonder if Appleworks will eventually fade away, having been replaced by the iLife and iWork suites. Appleworks includes word processing, database creation, painting and speadsheet applications. Pages certainly handles word processing, but the others – database, painting and spreadsheet – are not represented by the iLife or iWork bundles. I'm apt to think Apple would be content to let this functionality die with Appleworks, as they don't really fit into the "digital hub" strategy.

What's your opinion of Applework's eventual fate? Do you use it?