Poser has been sold again....

Do you know something about this Smith Micro Software Inc which has purchased Poser and all the e-frontier software division?
Do you think that something will change for Poser and its final users?

Giorgio

where have you been? ;)

Actually, offline for a while. Thanks for your kindness.

well, I'd be surprised if they did anything negatively (financially, that is) to the package. There's a few threads back a page or three, yet for all that fulminating, the sky hasn't fallen...yet...;)

Welcome back giorgio ;) actually we've heard nothing from the new owners so far, it's almost totally opposite to e-frontier who wouldn't stop posting when they bought it ;)

Yep, silence is golden....(sarcasm). ;)

The fact that Poser 7 Pro has been moved up to 'Winter' and probably some time next year isn't fairing well - I wager in February or March at the earliest.

Quote - Do you think that something will change for Poser and its final users?

Good question.  Unfortunately, the answer is: I don't know.  And it'll likely be awhile before we do know.  Sorry that I can't give you a better answer, but that's about all that anyone can say at this point in time.......beyond purely speculative predictions.  Which can, of course, be had in abundance.

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The fact that Poser 7 Pro has been moved up to 'Winter' and probably some time next year isn't fairing well - I wager in February or March at the earliest.

The delay isn't necessarily a bad thing, remember what happened with the Daz purchase of Hexagon? Eovia had already sold pre-orders on Hex 2 and no doubt said it was ready to ship when Daz bought it. So Daz released it FULL of bugs and it still hasn't recovered.

Here's hoping the new owners allow the programmers (not the new marketing department) to decide when P7 Pro is ready.

Quote - Here's hoping the new owners allow the programmers (not the new marketing department) to decide when P7 Pro is ready.

Couldn't agree more :D

I'll play both sides against the middle on that. :)

Yes, I'd rather wait for something that works than receive as scheduled in poor working order.

On the other hand, the notified release was for 'fall' just before fall arrived and must have been under scheduled consideration.  For something of this magnitude, you don't say "it'll be ready tomorrow" when things are still being developed. You do it as final testing is ongoing, the box designs are finalized and going for manufacture - you know what I mean.  So, how far could it have been from finalization that they basically said it would be released within a month or two?

Now, they've moved it to 'winter' which could indicate a rescheduling due to the change of ownership - mainly.  Unless there was some major unexpected snag in one of the features being implemented, the actual software should be ready to go.

JM2C

Hey, maybe the new owners are more ambitious than EF were and decided to expand the feature-set a bit. Wouldn't that be cool!

we don't know much yet, giorgio. but if past experience with poser is any indication, the new owners will attempt to correct the programming errors inherent in the current version, put out a paid beta of the new version fairly soon, start work on the next version after 9 months, then seek a buyer for poser when they realise they're in over their heads.