The next carrara version will give us an idea of what will happen to it's future. I Don't use DS so if it goes the way of Bryce, I won't need to upgrade. C5Pro will be good enough for a few years. I need a new computer soon so we shall see. Unless Daz does the same thing they did with Bryce6 and gives me C6Pro for $6.

Forgot to mention that Vue6 can use Poser shaders because of the way it uses poser to do it's thing. Now it's up to Daz to improve Carrara.