Let's face it; this has been a long overdue move on Poser's part. P7Pro is sounding all the world like an animators release. Not many people need a renderfarm for stills. I also strongly doubt that the info released is all the info there is; for compatibility 's sake if nothing else, they will need either weightmapping or runtime sub-D.....or both. Comparing Poser in any incarnation and Cararra is apples and kumquats; one is a figure manipulating, animating and rendering app, the other is a modelling program with plug-in support for dynamics. DAZ may indeed try and phase out Poser support....to be followed shortly by DAZ going out of business. They make their money on =content=.....and the king of content use is still Poser. Bryce is creaky, and I doubt turning a profit unless they got if for next to nothing (which is possible). Cararra's community is considerably smaller than Poser's. The 'DS is FWEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!' screed only holds until you start to want or need those expensive additions to come close to what a single app (or a pair of them) can produce. Sure, DAZ started DS and collecting endangered apps as a hedge against Poser going Tango Uniform. Which is why eF has gotten into the content creation business....so that =their= eggs don't depend on the kindness of DAZ. So we'll see what P7Pro is made of.....it might just bury DS, you know....