Quote - I'm not on the business side of the site, but I do know that if DAZ fails, we're not far behind.  In this case, it'd be more prudent for us to try to build them up, rather than watch them fall.

I throw my NON-Contentious vote to this post by Jen- and several Wolf359 posts. Long live Daz and Poser!

My experience is in BioTech btw, I've NEVER been an Old Spice Salesman (where did THAT come from?).  I did spend several years immersed in everything I could read about the underpinnings of 3D graphics including shader models, SubD surfaces, HDRI rendering engines. I've spend hundreds of hours experimenting with PoserPro2012's new SSS nodes-and am impressed. I can still do more with Lightwave (my "pro" app) and can play with subD there. I can also subdive polys in Lightwave and add bones and deformations.   But in the end- Wolf is a 3d pro and I'm not. :-)

I did purchase Zbrush4 and was having a blast making new morphs for V4- right up until PoserPro2012 caught my geek focus. I'll never own Max or Maya (unless I win the Lotto) and all the expensive plug in's needed to compete and play with High End near reality. But I'm aware of much of the function and quality available and aware just how far Poser has come since I was rendering the P3 female with shiny mannequin hair

 I dearly hope Poser and Daz both survive.If they do, eventually we will have GPU assisted rendering. PoserPro2012 and P9(?) are already capable of realistic dynamic hair- it's just that other than Carodan-nobody seems to know or use it. It's my next GEEK focus subject!

To paraphrase Star Trek. "Blast it Jim, I'm a scientist not and Old Spice salesman!" :-)