I have to agree with renderer -- to an extent. I find much of DAZs stuff cheesy, with an almost adolescent bent.

Eovia had a straight path in application development, and a personal development connection to many of its user base.  I do not get the same sense with DAZ.  It's kind of like Walmart taking over the development of some important product.  DAZ is a content marketer, application development only has value to the extent that it can help drive content.

Just look at Bryce.  I upgraded to Bryce 5.5 just to help keep the progam alive, and the biggest change in going from 5.0 to 5.5 was to provide an easy channel to DAZ Studio -- (read CONTENT SALES). Now, it seems, Bryce 6.0 will be released soon, but it sounds like the much superior(?) Vue 6 Easel will be on Bryce 6 like a monkey on ugly!  Who will want to pay $$ for an upgrade to a progam that is still ~3 years behind the competition -- any competition?

Sorry, but I do not have the same sense about DAZ as I had towards Eovia, or Metacreations, or Fractal Design Corp. for that matter.