Pixologic will be the best choice to develop Carrara and hexagon. in the past they hired most of the developers from evoia france. if that happen carrara and hexagon be back in bussiness in no time.

1.Microsoft bought TrueSpace to use it's technology in bing maps not to keep the software. After they got what they wanted TrueSpace was dropped.

1. Adobe: no one like to deal with their subscription crap. I already replace Adobe products with other software.

1. Corel: don't have much experience in 3d field by the time they buy Carrara it will be dead. Remember when they bought Bryce they didn't know what to do with it. Under Corel Bryce didn't get any development.

1. Maxon and Newtek already have a superior products Cinema 4D and lightwave so they don't need a competing product under their name. Newtek is a good company to deal with but not Maxon. It is another Autodisk and Adobe want to be buying software from them getting really expensive. If you don't upgrade your software for couple version you have to pay the full price.

1. Smith-Micro: is the best choice to develop Carrara further plus Poser and Carrara complement each other and both use to be part of MetaCreation. They should buy n-Side QUIDAM too and integrate It to Poser to make more powerful.

1. E-Frontier: already bought amapi and stop development on it after few months. They integrate some of the tools into shade and dropped the rest.

In my opinion Smith-Micro is the best choice to develop Carrara further.