Quote - > Quote - What could happen is that Poser might get cannibalized for code and/or repurposed. Not saying it will, or even saying that it's likely. Just a possibility

Tom, it seems a pretty faint possibility to me too. If you wanted reusable code, would you buy and app from the 90s that's based on text files?

Devil's Advocate: The stuff is optimized to run on lighter hardware requirements (P1, PII, etc). It is possible to incorporate bits of it here and there into other PC/Mac -based apps that may or may not fit SM's ideas and plans.

OTOH, it's certainly not light enough to sit on a current tech smartphone or somesuch. I doubt that even the iPhone could run any bit of it without bogging down.

That said, I don't quite see that happening.

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Quote - How Many Here have a runtime that exceeds **10 GiGS??

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Ask a Siebel Database owner how big their locked-all-to-hell DB's were when Oracle bought Siebel and promptly flushed that product line down the crapper. ;)

Not saying it'll happen in this case (far from it), but the argument of what some former product owner's customer line has or has not just isn't relevant, if the reason for purchase involves something other than continuing on with the product(s) in question.

Quote - If there was no future versions of poser what would it mean to you

I'd render it in D|S. Or Poser 6. Or P4/PPP if I had to, and I agree with where you're going on that line. I'd like to extend it further by saying that if there's a desire, somebody is gonna fulfill it for the right price.

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