As far as I know Poser has always been the same core programmers working on the application, the change in owner just means change in funding.  I'm happy with Poser Pro, it does what many of the other applications with money up their wazooos haven't been able to do yet; works with Vista 64 and lets me send multiple files to render away while I keep working with the software. Oh and it renders much faster, I have a quad core with 8 gigs so its like having more than one computer. I'm really happy with how this tiny company in Santa Barbara lets me work with the latest technology for a couple 100.00 while Adobe, Autodesk & others are still struggling to offer support for the new technology.