DAZ Studio can with plugin export to a Poser file.  Carrara can import the Poser file, though without having Poser installed on your machine, it might not work.... 

If you have a poser character, you can import the geometry and shaders directly into Carrara without the use of Poser through the native importer.  Carrara has the ability to manipulate the characters, but it's a slightly more cumbersome approach than posing in Poser or DAZ.  But, since you dont' much like DAZ or Poser, maybe Carrara's approach would appeal more to you.  Who knows?

You can always download the demo (if DAZ still offers that) of Carrara and a free figure or two and give it a shot.