I am new on this forum so maybe I should start with 'hello'.

But as to how this will benefit Poser users, Carrara and Hexagon are both content creation softwares right?  Poser caters to people who create their own content so I would think this is a good thing. If they so chose, DAZ could attempt to make Carrara and Hexagon the default content creation tools for Poser.

Not that e frontier necessarily wants that to happen. They own Shade and likely want that to be the default content creation tool for their own software. There is really only so much DAZ can do. Poser is moving away from DAZ.  Are Jesse, James, Koji and Miki even DAZ models? Regardless, it seems both companies are making moves in directions away from each other (I mean, they are selling Poser/Vue bundles).

As I havew said before, I am cautiously optimistic...

Go DAZ!