Now a year later with the version 1.4 the road is smoother, and we grew accustom to Lightroom's workflow. Aside of all the controversy and emotions around Lightroom's quality, and around the Adobe inflicted demise of RawShooter, I see no alternative to Lightroom. The functionality serves the purpose well, the intelligent image filters in "development" are now state of the art and they deliver great results. The photography got simpler now. Compared to the film scan and the notoriously imperfect programs from the the early time (NikonScan, Vuescan...) it is much easier to produce a decent image in a short time.