That "other guy" was Planetside's Matt Fairclough, who actually is the guy behind Terragen code. I really think that it was his going off to work for Digital Domain- and then coming back to write the very impressive Terragen 2 (alpha) that got E-on somewhat --"Scared?, Interested?"-- in making their own high-end production house connections- like ILM.

We don't (and may never know) the full story- but I suspect that some of E-on's staff did their own trips to California 3D production houses to both earn some $$$ and also more importantly- really get their FEET WET in the BIG TIME world of 3D movie/game production... and by doing so- realized that- Vue was WAY BEHIND in meeting the needs of the PROS- and needed to GET INTO the professional 3D work-full system. This led to X-Stream products- which in turn- again made E-on realize how really CLUNKY their software code was by BIG TIME standards- forcing another big Re-Write of Vue...

The Good News/Bad News is (I think) - that E-on has been forced to make Vue 6 fully 64 bit code that works effectively with PRO 3D software (the Good News)- but that Vue 6's new code format will also be a SUB-SET of what the PRO'S use. This means that Vue 6- the "Infinite" consumer version will be somewhat "dumbed down"- or to put it another way- you will need MAX, LW, C4D, Maya, etc to really get the power and full features you really want- or need. Or as I've said in a thread months back- VUE is really becoming a PLUG-IN achitecture software- and that's where most of the E-on time and software development is/will be spent in the future...