IMVHO, because Poser is a hobbyist application, it will never make a lot of money for its owners. If we were professional graphic artists, we would all be on Poser 7 because (a) the company would pay for it, and (b) earlier versions would no longer be supported. As it is, there are a lot of people who, for various reasons, still use Poser 6, 5 and even 4. I wonder how many regular Poser users upgraded to 7?

e-Frontier made no money from existing Poser users who didn't buy Poser 6 from them or upgrade to 7. Likewise, Smith-Micro will make no money from existing Poser users until a new version comes out. (I doubt that CP makes a lot of money.)

Mike