Man I love this forum!  Start out with V7 (if that's the base figure....WOW) and end up with ..................!   I think one complete solution to the whole DAZ/SM debate would be to have one buy the other.  But is that exactly what is wanted? 

Smith Micro is in no position to buy out DAZ.  They are a publicly traded company, it doesn't take much to find their financials.  Since DAZ is not a publicly traded company I have no idea if the reverse is possible, or even desired.  Why would DAZ want to maintain to separate, very high maintenance programs that do the same thing?  Poser may end up with somebody else, I doubt seriously it would be DAZ.