Ron,
I suspect you are criticising the wrong people when you complain about
the high cost of Oxford Cryosystems Search-Match CSM software.
CSM apparently uses the ICDD powder diffraction file PDF, the product
of another (American) organisation, which is indeed quite expensive.
(~$6000 I believe, which would explain the cost of 4500 pounds if CSM
includes it). ICDD has nothing to do with ICSD, & neither FIZ Karlsruhe
nor Oxford Cryosystems fix the price of the PDF. (see: www.icdd.com)
I agree that the PDF is too expensive (even tho' ICDD point out that it
is only 6 cents for each of the 115,000 patterns :-) and for that reason
our lab. can't afford it either - but that's our choice too.
Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 11 March 1999:
>Below is the exchange I had with Oxford over the price of
>a new search match system (as well as lots of other functions) The price is
>4500 pounds with no academic( or non-commercial) price.
>>* January 1999 sees the launch of Crystallographica Search Match
>>(CSM), a new search-match program used in conjunction with the Powder
>>Diffraction File...
Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tel (33) 4.76.20.72.13
ftp://ftp.ill.fr/pub/dif fax (33) 4.76.48.39.06 http://www.ill.fr/dif/
