What's the purpose? As stated by someone earlier in this thread, how about survival? DAZ's business is based on Poser and at times it seems likes Poser's future was less than guaranteed. Will DS be better than Poser? Maybe, maybe not. But if they've been listening, and based on my experiences with DAZ I think they have, they know what people have been complaining about with Poser 5. I just got into Poser earlier this year with P5, so I've never worked with P4 or ProPack. Is P5 a dog? Could be, but I'm having a heckuva lot of fun with it. I've read many of the threads about DS and it seems most of the hype may be coming from excited artists who are looking for something better. I'll try DS when it comes out and make my decision then. As of now, DAZ can keep producing quality products, I can get great help to my problems here, the other content makers can keep producing their good stuff, the generous folks at this site and others can keep blessing us with great free stuff, and, well, life is good as far as I'm concerned.