I was in a sculpture gallery yesterday where a sign proclaimed that refurbishment should be complete by the end of November.    Unless I was missing something fairly crucial, it hadn't even started.

The way E-Frontier has been staging its launch implies that it has a product ready (in E-F's own opinion - I'm not holding my breath for a bug-free Poser 7) for launch imminently.   Yes, they already have lots of money from those who have ordered P7, but they would risk claims for refunds, if they held the launch back for long.   I suspect that they have planned this pretty well and I just hope their programmers have been at least half as clever.