Best phenetics software?

[Murray Dawson]

Greetings,

Would anyone like to contribute their thoughts on the "best" software for
numerical taxonomy?

Criteria of a prospective package: user-friendly, flexible, powerful
(universal requirements!); relevant to taxonomists and well-suited for
handling both qualitative and quantitative characters; capable of cluster
analysis and ordination.

PATN (Australian-developed) and NTSYS are two I have heard of - any
others?

PLEASE let us avoid the age-old arguments of phenetics versus
cladistics!

I have followed the recent string on the "best" herbarium DBMS software
with interest - it is really productive to gain a rough consensus based on
such a large pool of experience.

Murray Dawson