"Shade has it's own customer base and so does poser. I doubt the the two will merge any time soon." Put yourselfs in E-Frontier's shoes. You bought CL to spread YOUR product to the west. You aquired Poser but your aim as stated from the beginning is to grow Shade. Now if you aren't gaining the numbers of converts you wanted from Poser useres by providing integration with Shade. What are you going to do? You got it! Start providing the more advanced features in Shade and then provide Poser with the integration so you can export from Shade rather that vice-versa which it is now. Get it? In other words you create lets say dynamic cloth in Shade and you play it back in Poser.