Quote - And that's just a fraction of what Poser 7/PRO can do....

So until you can show me another program that can do stuff like that as easily (and for the same/lower price), I might say that any reports about Poser's early demise might be slightly exaggerated.

It's just a matter of time.  Check out some of the freeware render engines that are available for Blender, they completely blow firefly off the map in both speed an quality of output.

At the moment Blender is the leader in the open source community as far as 3d software, but its interface could best be described as cryptic.  However this does not mean that at some point someone won't come along and using blender and several other open source projects as a code base develop something that has a decent, easy to use interface.

When they do Poser is in a great deal of trouble.  Once you can start using Poser content inside a good, stable 3d program with a decent price tag associated with it then Poser the program will eventually fade away.

The Poser community, of course, will still remain - but they will slowly but surely switch to other software. 

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...