Bioequivalence and Bioavailability Forum

Hi Luv,

❝ ❝ Or is there a hidden counter in the software which phones home every time I execute a workflow?

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❝ Yes. Couple of days back, I had a word with a "scientist" who is with Certara and he informed me about the proposed fee model (the one that we got in mail) and also that there will be a counter/Log sort of ting in the tool which will record the total run studies.

That’s bizarre. I regularly re-evaluate already completed projects (exploring new PK metrics, impact of other sampling schedules, Nonparametric Superposition, …) in order to design new studies. Will that increase the counter? Oh dear!
Furthermore, how will Certara access the counter? I have both a hardware firewall on my router and a software firewall on my machine. Trojan, backdoor, rootkit in the “Pharsight Licensing Wizard”? Any­body out there already installed the new license? What is stated in the EULA we all click away that fast?

❝ ❝ Shall I pay for sumfink I do in my spare time at no costs? Gimme a break!

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❝ Time to increase your consultancy fee accordingly

I try hard. “Clever” clients try to issue contracts where my fee is fixed for some years…

❝ There is one more tool […] PK express.

Looks promising. I just requested a trial-version. At the bottom of the webpage I found

  Validation Kit 

Let’s see what that means (e.g., surviving our reference data sets)…

❝ AFAIK, their proposed fee structure is very lucrative.

Couldn’t find anything on the website. Can you give me an idea?

❝ ❝ Have your heard about RapidNCA?

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❝ Hearing this for first time. Let me check it out.

Brand-new. Version 1 was released on March 1, 2015.

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