shvrdavid posted at 10:47PM Thu, 18 July 2019 - #4357409

ProtocolZero posted at 8:34PM Thu, 18 July 2019 - #4357405

Each previous owner held onto Poser for about 4 years and pooped out about 2 versions before fobbing it off onto someone else.

Smith Micro owned Poser for about 12 years, released about 11 versions.

But what good are facts, when you can just assume the rest............................

You're correct.

Earlier comment:

Based on what?... Neither does the commercial approach, and we know that that's been tried, many times and for many years. Poser's running out of chances. So did Fractal Designs, and Metacreations, and Curious Labs, and e-Frontier, and Smith Micro, and they all ended up bailing on it eventually. I agree, but "invest" can mean many things to many people. Can you honestly say that the Blender crew aren't "invested" in their product? Or the Linux guys?

A correction on the history here. Fractal Design was more than just Poser. They also had Painter, Bryce, and Kai's Power Tools and several other applications. Later they merged with some other companies and formed Metacreations, who later had a hairbrained scheme to go into web-related products (sad day, I owned just about every one of the Metacreations applications). All of the graphics products were sold out to various companies.

So in reality you can count Fractal Design and Metacreations as ONE OWNER, and they produced Poser 1 through Poser 4.

The Poser team spun off after the Metacreations breakup and formed Curious Labs, and they released Poser 4.0.3, Pro Pack, and Poser 5. They also released Poser 6 in conjunction with eFrontier. Total number of years with Curious Labs = 6, and released 3 versions.

EFrontier, after having released Poser 6 in conjunction with Curious Labs, only released Poser 7 in December 2006.

Poser Pro was the first version released by Smith Micro in May 2008 Poser 8 - Aug 2009 Poser Pro 2010 - March 2010 Poser Debut - Feb 2011 Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012 - Sep 2011 Poser 10 and Poser Pro 2014 - May 2013 Poser Pro Game Dev - Aug 2014 Poser 11 and Poser Pro 11 - Nov 2015 Old team let go Nov 2016

New team released Poser 11.1 Dec 2017 New team released Poser 11.1.1 Jan 2019

Poser sold to Renderosity June 2019

In spite of the length of time that SM owned Poser, SM wasn't a good fit for Poser. 90% of their business was IT/Wireless related. I never understood the logic of the acquisition.