I can't believe you guys are still hanging on to a dream that will never materialize. Let me spell it to you loud and clear:

Carrara is dead, as dead as can be. There will never ever ever ever ever (did I repeat it enough times?) be a Carrara 9. Nobody at Daz is working on Carrara. Daz made a very lame attempt at making us believe that Carrara is moving forward by making a pathetic buggy release of Carrara/Ingres SQL. This 'release' was obviously done by a part-time junior programmer getting on the job training. And even this part-time kid has left the company long time ago, or he has been assigned to another project.

Don't hold your breathe for a C9 release because it will never happen.