Quote - DAZ finally realized that D/S compared to Poser is never going to make it and decided to start selling Poser 7, since it's superior to D/S and even a lot of people at DAZ would love to buy it, but they don't buy at CP or SM.

Smith Micro finally realized that compared to Hexagon their own Shade is inferior, so why not start selling what people really can use.

It's simply business.

The only real sign of something happening is when D/S 3.0 will have direct native and working support for PZ3 files (import & export) and Poser 7 / Pro next service release will have direct support for D/S native scenes (import & export).

UH...
See my thread here about the characters coming out of Shade AND the animation done with them.

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