Nvivo7 is a very large program. Uninstalled it sits at 146 Megs compressed; installed its core program is 58 Meg (Nvivo 2 is 16 Meg and Nud*ist 6 is 10 Megs). Installation of Nvivo7 takes about 15 minutes or more, depending on your microprocessor, memory, etc, and requires the installation of Microsoft SQL Express 2005, Crystal Reports 2005 for .NET framework 2.0 (x86). Installation requires Microsoft access. Be prepared for changes in your computer's system files. Nvivo7 represents a merger of Nud*ist 6 and Nvivo 2, and has some nice added features, like an undo feature. These programs always had a statistical interface, such as with SPSS or Excel. But Nvivo 7 definitely runs slower, and some folks may wish to retain their licenses for Nvivo 2 and Nud*ist 6. Without a question, N6 is the most efficient and fastest of these three programs, and if you like its power (such as its command assistant), and don't mind an ascii text enviroment, N6 is still a very good program. Different strokes for different folks. Cheers Carl -------------------------------- Carl Cuneo, Professor & Chair Dept. of Sociology, KTH 628 McMaster University Hamilton, Ont., Canada L8S 4M4 Ph 905-525-9140, ext. 23614 -------------------------------- On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 15:43:14 -0500 Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
Coincidentally that some folks on this list mentioned Nvivo, Tom Richards (co-founder with wife Lyn) of Nudist/Nvivo gave a demo of the new Nvivo7 qualitative analysis software yesterday.
It looked wonderful. It's a totally rewitten integration of N6 (ex Nud*ist) and Nvivo2. And has some hooks into statistical analysis packages, such as SPSS.
BTW, Tom & Lyn have recently retired as active employees of QSR, the company they founded re their product. They remain connected.
Had lovely dinner with Tom last night, who is going to pursue his astronomy hobby.
One nice story is that Nudist's name got changed to N4 because (a) some US universities balked at buying such a risque product (even when spelled Nud*ist), and then when the Internet took off, some prudish filters wouldn't let messages through with Nudist in the subject line.
This is NOT an April Fool's story. Barry
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