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I think our own interest is certainly driven by bench chemists, and you may see my other comments to Richard Hong and Tom Slee about the benefits I think are to be gained by moving modeling packages to the bench chemist. We've also seen the PC packages sneered at by the big-package user, and I've personally struggled with poor PC packages (poorly written, and poorly executed science) – I think I've got every PC package available. Hyperchem does push the envelope with regard to PC packages, no question about it. One of the hurdles we'll have to deal with is gaining Hyperchem some credibility against the large packages (the issue you raise in your note). The industrial price is large enough so that it gets questioned (the list price puts it above our ability to casually order the thing. It becomes a "capital" purchase that entails an additional layer of bureaucracy), we now have 2 copies in-house and expect to give it a fairly exhaustive evaluation.