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It's pretty common for a software house to buy up the competition to kill it through attrition.

So, err, what competition did Carrara/Eovia present to DAZ, exactly? I'll save you the trouble: none.

Carrara does make some sense from the perspective of having a platform to move D|S figures into and out of, as it provides some fairly decent modeling, a very nice render setup, and other goodies. 

I know that DAZ bought Bryce to save it (and the still-sizeable Bryce user base) from the oblivion of Corel's software graveyard, where the one other bit of unaccounted-for MetaCreations software (Canoma) sits.

Oh, so that's why they announced yesterday that they're not going to be updating Bryce?  To save it from oblivion?  OK!

As for Carrara, my guess would be they needed some bit of the Carrara code for Daz Studio, so they bought it to own the code and port it to their app in house.

Of course, I freely admit that I am guessing.

Not a perpetual insider like Pen, here.