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I enjoyed reading your comments. As a value added HypeChem dealer we're certainly having some success. But we also find that the challenge for HyperChem is finding its position in the market, not something that happens overnight. Many industrial institutions, especially pharmaceutical companies, have big-time modeling investments. However, serious modeling has often been left to the computational chemist. We find this is changing as more chemists/biochemists/immunochemists, etc., are being exposed to computational tools like MOPAC, Sybil, Chem-X, etc. Many chemists, though, have been turned off by ealier PC packages that have severe limitations and utility. HyperChem certainly is the 1st of a new generation of PC/desktop systems and has to overcome the poor record of other PC systems and find its place relative to mini- or mainframe systems. We also are finding two kind of industrial customers: those who have not had good experience with prior PC systems and therefor feel HyperChem is too expensive, and those who have "big system" experience and can't believe that HyperChem can possibly work at ONLY $3500. We are undeterred by either because we think HyperChem, for what it is, is a good product with top notch documentation.