smalll - there is no need to worry. None of the companies that owned Poser "perished". They were just bought by another company. The people who worked for the first company then worked for the new company. In simple terms, it was just a change of company name.

The companies were taken over not because they were failing, but because they were quite successful and had a large, loyal user community, which is valuable.

It is quite normal for a relatively small company with a lot of loyal customers to be bought out by, and merged into, a larger company like this. In general, the new company commits to maintaining and developing the software in order to keep those customers happy and loyal.

The software that we use to run our business has been bought out by four different companies in five years.

(Others will no doubt want to "correct" some things I have said here - but guys, bear in mind I'm just trying to keep it simple, okay?)

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)