As I embark on the which qualitative software to purchase, I find myself in the position of not knowing what questions to ask. I am conducting a study of 63 classrooms within 9 schools. My data includes classroom observations, teacher, administrator, student and parent interviews. The question I am attempting to ask is "What works?" for at-risk students in terms of literacy development. This open ended question requires that I have access to maximum analysis capabilities as I do not know what may be revealed from the data. I am really comfortable with windows and would like software that has some quantitative capabilities. I've done a search on the internet and Winmax seems quite confident. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with WinMax and what your reaction, issues and recommendations would be as compared to Ethnograph, Code-a-text and Nudist?