@Xenophonz: I admire your optimism Robert and I guess taking a 'wait and see' attitude towards this is all that's left for us to do but I can't help help but think there is more than a grain of truth to aeilkema's analysis of Poser's decline.

My own worries about Poser's future began when Daz decided to unhitch their wagon from Poser's star with the release of D|S. Whatever it's shortcomings you can't beat the price and I couldn't see EF really beating it either. With Daz's release of Carrara 6 there is already a 'high end' Poser-like solution that will negate any success that may have been achieved with Poser Pro. So it looks like EF is losing the game from both ends.

There did seem to be a ray of hope with EF's ownership of Poser because at least Poser found a home with a company that did have a nice array of other graphics apps. I don't know if the same thing can be said about Smith Micro.

Hopefully everything will turn out for the best but this move is disconcerting.

• Rick