"First, Renderosity has to see what they have... They need to sit down around a conference table and develop a strategy for first examining their product. All portions of their product, from each Room and process that product performs. EVERY BIT OF IT. That is the only way anyone can sensibly create a plan to exploit the profit potential of a product. This is also a moot point and is not debatable. Anyone who says that is not an appropriate process is wrong."

Code review is going to be the absolute first thing that happens - only a flaming moron would skip this step.

Thing is, I don't know how many of Poser's previous dev team got hired by Bondware/Rendo, if I'm reading that whole Poser-team-getting-sacked thing correctly. Without the tribal knowledge, all the documentation on the planet isn't going to make up for the fact that a whole lot went missing when the last dev walked out the door.

It's a good thing in some aspects, because it lets the new team look everything over with fresh eyes. It's a bad thing in others, because there are always going to be gotchas in there that you're not going to anticipate until you start doing a few initial builds and start testing it out. Rendo is going to have to hire some top-notch devs - people who can really tear into the codebase and know what's going on in there.

Note to all - this is going to take time, so get comfortable. Just to get to a point where you can compile and actually know what's going on when you do will take months if they're lucky and hire/keep some of the old dev team into their fold, around a year or more if not, because you're gonna have newbies who need to get familiar with that beast. Then, the updates... patching bugs and security issues. Bringing third-party components (coughpythoncough) up to date. Keeping up with bugaboos that arise in the interim. Refactoring where you can, if you can (where safe to do so). De-spaghettifying, making maintainable, and streamlining when/where you can, because you're not ever again going to get a better opportunity to do it. Make sure the results line up with any/all feature additions and roadmaps that the PTB have set.

Then, and only then, will they even think of tackling even the lowest-hanging fruit in the massive laundry/wish list of stuff that's been tendered in this thread.

I guess what I'm saying is, give 'em time to clean up the messes and figure out how to properly ride that tiger first... before you start demanding they put $type of saddle and tack on it.