they weren't able to sell poser AFAIK.  the only avail. buyer was autodesk, which was having probs of its own during the window of opportunity for dumping poser onto the next owner, thus forcing them to spend some time rewriting it and apparently being forced to retain FFRender as well, altho hopefully it will be sevl buttloads better than in poser 7, thx in part to input from experts here, previous wishlists here, and also bug-reporting and that.