Poser will become a retro-nostalgic utility for the coming much more powerful 21st Century Daz Studio. Poser (at least in its current form) will be sold in discount catalogs in future years for $75 or less. Bryce 5 is already selling for $75 as a full blown app (and still a good one- but no future it seems.) If you look at the World War II analogy- the enemy forces had superior fighters and bombers and skilled pilots. Within only a few years the U.S. had massive carrier fleets and state-of-the-art P51's and B-29's with nearly unbelievable aircraft and pilot production capacity. --DAZ is just getting their first Prototype airplane on the field for basic flight tests. Most of you have NO IDEA what this baby can do, but the backroom BUZZ is that its going to be AWESOME! I've seen this business for a very long time. I was using a cool little program called "XP" written by two brothers named Knoll- software now know as PhotoShop. Bought my first multimedia software from the tiny little HSC Software (later to become Metacreations. I have owned ALL the Metacreations software since version 1 or 2.) Anyway- DAZ STUDIO for you newbies out there- is a spin-off of Zygote, which between them and Viewpoint, made or marketed the vast majority of GOOD QUALITY 3D models for professional users of MAX, Lightwave, etc. So the people at DAZ have a MUCH DEEPER and LARGER VISION than most little Poser newbies can grasp. They think the 3D WORLD revolves around POSER, but it DOESN'T. DAZ is making a VERY SMART and very SHREWD decision in where DAZ STUDIO is going. DAZ could care less if Poser is still around years from now selling for $59 or whatever. In fact- it will still make a nice ENTRY LEVEL software for 3D newbies. The people who bought Poser will have to TOTALLY RE-WRITE it for VERSION 6 (taking a year or more) and then enter a market that will be dominated by a DAZ POWERHOUSE Software Application, plus CARRARA, C4D, TRUESPACE, MAX, LW, MAYA, etc. It is going to be a TOUGH ENTRY to a crowded and very competitive 3D marketplace!