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This Caltech survey is a bit strange. The Caltech experts range indexing programs in the category 'structure solution', mixed with direct method and direct space methods. This can explain why people had difficulties to participate to the survey. Maybe Caltech is no more what Caltech was supposed to be (so excellent) ? You may also visit a list of 'programs and methods' used for SDPD (Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry). Though it was not updated since 5 years, you will find numbers of applications: http://sdpd.univ-lemans.fr/iniref/progmeth.html In the category 6: Final Rietveld refinement, the 3 winners were GSAS (84), FULLPROF (57), DBW (27), in 2000. Updating this Web page would probably decrease the DBW proportion. But, SDPD aficionados are not behaving exactly like pure Rietveld users... A lot of Rietveld programs are DBW children... The problem with DBW is that Ray Young retired, and that programmers are not enormously active on the original version. The children have evolved separately for more than 15 or 20 years now (Fullprof, LHPM, etc). Armel PS - The position vacancy of the leader for the ILL Diffraction Group was announced in May. In the list of duties was not mentioned the maintaining of the Rietveld Mailing List. A few words about this, Alan ?
