10-Q

Many times I have written about the price of NMR software, but rarely reporting the figures. At the cost of becoming boring (and of making the happiness of Ryan), I want to add another post in the vein. Yesterday I stumbled upon an old document of no value: a Quarterly report of Accelrys to the SEC of 1998. It's old to the point of becoming misleading. There you can find the prices in yen for the Japanese market in 1996 and the equivalent in dollars. I am reporting the latter only. They are unbelievable:

• Felix-ND: $ 30,000
• Felix-Assign (additional module): $ 30,000
• Felix-Model (another module): $ 15,000
• NMR Compass: $ 25,000
• NMR-Pipe: $ 30,000
• NMR Refine Complete (requires Insight and Discover): $ 60,000
• NMR Structure Determination (requires QUANTA): $ 23,000

All the notes within parenthesis mean that you need to spend another amount of money before you can use that product. Don't forget that the value of the dollar has decreased a lot since then! I want to know who bought at those prices and, most of all, I want to hear from them if they would do it again today.
They can't, anyway. There are no NMR products in the present listing of Accelrys. A curio: Joachim Sauer (Angela Merkel's husband) worked at the company. It looks like a spy-story, involving the STASI and the CIA. Read it here in English. The same news can be found in other languages on the web.