One other thing to remember is Adobe's seamless integration. Since Carrara is not only a modeling program, but also an animation program, Adobe will likely make it much more AfterEffects friendly, allowing it to be easily used in the video production environment. This, alone, will provide a pretty substantial base of users; virtually every industrial video shop has AfterEffects, but not so many have Lightwave or 3DS. With a base of users, we all can look forward to a lengthy product life, lots of plug-in development and many happy revisions.