THe way I see things is that I have two seperate rendering
environments - which can't see each other's shaders/textures/
etc.

I don't think that I can use any materials from the Maya
renderer unless I have some kind of translation tool
(such as MayaMan, I think).

I am not sure that all this is worth it but, I am still learning...
It seems that PRMan can't do some things (like fur)....

Renderman seems faster than the Maya Renderer and
I think Networking is 'easier' with Renderman - I still
can't figure out how to network render w/ only Maya!!!

Cheers.