Dear All, As you know we plan to change over Mathematica licensing when the current license agreement comes to an end. The dat for this is currently 1st of September. However, there have already been people asking for Mathematica on the understanding that it is going get a departmental license - strange how it has now become vital to their research when it wasn't in the past - but I digress. So I have been looking at the option of bringing the date of the switch over forward and have contacted Wolfram and ICT. This is possible and we would get the remaining time on the existing licenses as a discount on the first year's fee. Kenny has agreed that the department will underwrite the new license until the split between the different groups and the department is worked out. So there is no financial reason not to go ahead (assuming that Kenny is happy for us to bring this spend forward). The only down side of this that I can see is that every current user would have to change their license key over in a period of three or four days before the current codes cease to work, but they will have to do this at some point anyway. If people are happy with this then I will see if we can change over on the 1st of June. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THIS. I have asked ICT for a list of the current licenses bought via ICT as input into the breakdown of the cost splitting betweenthe research groups and the department. Best, david