Well, assuming that the Evoia team in Mountain View is willing to hang on during the transition, then there wouldn't seem to be any need to dump Bryce, as the support teams are entirely separate. On the other hand, given that DAZ has allegedly inherited a mess of legacy coding that would require a ground-up rebuild to improve upon towards a true 6.0 release, perhaps the ROI on continued Bryce dev wouldn't be worthwhile. As vocally anti-DAZ as some of the longtime Brycers have been, I had the impression that they were resigned to the impending "death of Bryce" prior to DAZ' acquisition of the app anyway. Naturally, more recent adopters may be disappointed if this contingency plays out.

I dunno ... so much speculation in this thread, and now I'm doing it too LOL. I just hope that the Evoia team keeps the faith under DAZ' stewardship. Any acquisition or merger is potentially painful and represents an inevitable change of culture, but those of us in the tech industries are quite accustomed to all that by now.  :-)