Quote - imo if you want to talk about cut-throat business, look at how e frontier and Autodesk refuse to make any real effort to work together - incompatible rigging, no working built-in import/export for either direction, just very frustrating to try to integrate those two when I tried it.  Certainly nothing so easy as Poser -> Vue or D|S -> Bryce.

 

I'm not sure if you're aware but there is a plug-in that  e frontier sells which will allow you to export Poser content /animation into Max. It's called BodyStudio and while it's not a built in fix (as it's a plug in), NONE of the high-end apps have direct import of Poser content but Poser will take in 3DS, LWO and OBJ formats without much problem. Actually, you'll find this is also the case between the high-end apps too, they usually don't have built in support for each other but support can be had via plug-ins (sometimes).  Normal practice, really.