I think most the people got used to Max, but in the past few years there are nice alternatives coming up and our studio wants to switch to Houdini, the only thing is that we use Corona for rendering, and there is no Corona for Houdini yet, but its on the waiting/voting list on the corona forum.
(almost hidden suggestion to help us get corona developed for Houdini intended ).
Beside from asking for a little help, Im intrested in what do you or your studio uses on a daily basis, and is there a plan (or a discussion/testing going on) to switch to something different?