Regarding Dan's comment about bringing Bryce together with another app; I have mixed feelings about that.  If they were to add DAZ|Studio abilities into Bryce, I think that would be great!

It's the Bryce/Carrara thing that worries me because I don't see how there would be anything to gain from it, and more to the point, we'd have too much to loose.  The line would become blurred and we'd eventually loose Bryce.

One thing to be thankful for is that they seem to be admitting their mistakes; in short, they bit off more than could chew, so it'll be interesting to see how they go about 'tooling-down' a bit.

If anything, the app that needs to go is Hexagon.  By that, I mean that Hexagon should be merged into Carrara as a 'modeling room' or whatever.  That's one less seperate app' to worry about.

They could go from four to two app's :

Bryce & DAZ|Studio
Carrara & Hexagon

Carrara doesn't need the figure abilities of DAZ|Studio because it already has such things, so simply improve what it has, that being the modeling.  Bryce needs good figure integration, so introduce the companys very own technology, that being DAZ|Studio.

Hopefully, that'll be pretty obvious to DAZ this time around.  Or do we really have to wait until Hexagon goes around shouting 'I LOVE CARRARA' and DAZ|Studio starts waving it nickers at Bryce!