Dear Alan,Thanks for this announcement. We are of course very interested to obtain this new version, especially as we seem to be so lucky to get it for free ;-)Many thanks.Best regardsChristianOn Oct 11, 2006, at 9:56 PM, AlanCoelho wrote: Dear allVersion 4 of the Academic version of Bruker-AXS TOPAS, TOPAS-Academic, is now available to degree-granting institutions comprising universities, university run institutes, laboratories and schools. Bruker-AXS TOPAS shall be released before the end of the year.This version is big step forward; it is faster, more stable and equipped to take on the largest of crystallographic problems comprising tens of thousands of parameters. New techniques and ways of doing things should significantly assist in the analysis of crystallographic data; details are here:http://members.optusnet.com.au/~alancoelhoAll the bestAlan Coelho Dr. Ch. Baerlocher Lab. für Kristallographie ETH Zurich CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland Tel.: +41 44 632 3749 Fax: +41 44 632 1133