Adobe has had the chance to get in to 3D in the past. They actually have licensed code from Eovia for use in Photoshop. Now comparing Adobe to DAZ ? Adobe is a publicly traded company worth $24,198,781,026. Adobe holds a monopoly as far as prepress, 2D graphic, Web, Photography and Illustration goes. This aside of their video and post production tools. They own Postscript and PDF, and now Flash. They cater to the professional market. DAZ has a nitch within a nitch market. This market is so small that Adobe would only lose focus if it attempted to get in to it. Not to mention that Carrara, for all it's wonderful tools, is at best considered semi-pro package, and as of recently, it's turning more in to a hobbits tool. Adobe does cater a bit to the hobbits, but their main meat and potatoes is the professional market.

I did want them to pick up Painter at one time. I would much rather see Painter under Adobe then under Corel, but to each is own. I also would have preferred to see Eovia flourish as opposed to this DAZ merger, but you can't always get what you want.

I think if anything Modo would be a better fit for Adobe then Carrara. But if Adobe wanted to be in this market, they probably would have already done something about it. Just look how they gobbled up their only competition with the acquisition of Macromedia.