WandW posted at 12:51PM Sat, 31 October 2015 - #4236175

Zev0 posted at 11:31AM Sat, 31 October 2015 - #4235788

WandW posted at 5:08PM Thu, 29 October 2015 - #4235778

DAZ is no longer a small shop run by a group of artists, but is now but one small piece of a $80 Billion dollar corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and has to contribute to their bottom line...

Say what now?

Sorry for the delay, Zev, as I got no eBots.

Yes, DAZ is owned by NTT DOMOCO Innovations, formerly (until 1 October) NTT DOMOCO Capital, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT DoMoCo, the largest wireless carrier in Japan, which is majority owned and controlled by NTT, the big Japanese telecom company. They had a huge stake in Gizmoz, which merged with DAZ in 2009, and apparently acquired the rest of DAZ in 2011. Here is a list of companies they own...

https://www.docomoinnovations.com/portfolio

Regarding Terry's comment about Poser's ownership, (which I suppose was off topic here ) Yes, Poser has been owned by other software companies for over a decade (and was bought by MetaCreations back in the 1990s before being spun off into Curious Labs as well). However, Poser's management has remained mostly intact through this period, unlike at DAZ, where most (along with many of their in-house artists) were shown the door...

EDIT; Highway 12 Ventures apparently still has a stake; info on privately held companies is hard to find...

Actually no management was ever shown the door.. they sold their stake in company and left. Not sure who started that nonsense, but that should really be cleared up. You can't be shown the door on something you owned, but you can sell it and start a comicon. ;)

And most likely there was a purge at SM at the beginning of this year despite what was said. Word was it was hard to get in touch regarding dson/genesis issues with anyone at SM when all the contacts no longer worked at the company. :) But it does help to give some background on why Poser support was dropped with Genesis 3.

And as far as your references as far as who owns the company, I had to go ask. They don't know what you're talking about. I would stop spreading that if I were you. They thought the phone company part was funny though, I want some free phone service if that was actually true.