Paris was discontinued because the manufactore of the chips the paris eds cards used went under.
Paris may not be as known as Pro tools but is praised for it's A/D converters, alot of people say they sound the closest to tape, but remember everybody has different opinions. I saw paris in action years ago and loved it and always wanted a paris system, so I fallowed it and know quite a bit about it.
One Paris EDS card gives you 16 hardware based tracks, version 3.0 adds host based tracks also.
Paris Pro
Yeah the control surface they have is none motorized so that sucks and since it is dicontunied dont expect many more if any OS upgrades.