Numerous professional software packages are available in the market for performing heat transfer analysis, and they are widely advertised in professional magazines such as the Mechanical Engineering magazine published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Your company decides to purchase such a software package and asks you to prepare a report on the available packages, their costs, capabilities, ease of use, and compatibility with the available hardware, and other software as well as the reputation of the software company, their history, financial health, customer support, training, and future prospects, among other things. After a preliminary investigation, select the top three packages and prepare a full report on them.