hello! and welcome back! Poser Pro 2014 will have the easier learning curve... in my opinion, SM has gone off the deep end with Poser 11- you will have to get all NEW materials to use their new Superfly render engine... if you have a lot of content for poser already, I would highly recommend Poser 2014- which is the first true 64 bit version of poser. I'm enjoying it a lot, having upgraded from poser 9 (and having been in poser since it came to PC!).

There are more DAZ products at Rendo now, which is a bit frustrating for a dedicated poser user, but there are other products/stores that will have a more balanced line of both poser and DAZ... and yes, HiveWire has top of the line people and horses with more animals coming soon. (and a friendly warm community as well).

Good luck!

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!