Probably a good thing. If a company diversifies too much they can't spend enough time on their bread and butter apps to keep them going properly. Spreading themselves too thin. The end result will be all products languishing behind their competitors and killing their cash flow on product upgrades etc. Also, what more can they do to improve Bryce and if they could do something, will it give them return on their investment, meaning will the loyalist return to using Bryce or will they jump to Vue or something. Eovia probably knows something about this when they took over Carrara but Carrara was still rather young and immensly expandable. Bryce is fairly mature and I would figure somewhat more difficult to expand on. Eovia may not be in the position to spend millions or go in debt to puchase the product. And Bryce my have a loyal following but it's a declining user base. In my opinion, very risky to buy. I'm a bit surprised with DAZ3D buying it as I see them being a smaller company than Eovia but maybe they have their reasons or my perception is way off. I.E. snap up the bryce rendering engine or techniques, importing code etc. Who knows.