Appendix B of the book discusses several MDS software packages. For more details of the capabilities of the following software, we refer to the book. The MDS software is classified into three main categories: interactive MDS programs, programs with high-resolution graphics, and without high-resolution graphics.
| Name | Type | Commercial | Contact |
| GGVis | Interactive | Freeware | ggobi-help@ggobi.org |
| PerMap | Interactive | Freeware | Ron Heady: ron@heady.us |
| Alscal | High-resolution graphics | Within the commercial SPSS package | SPSS Inc |
| NewMDSX© | High-resolution graphics | Commercial package | enquiries@newmdsx.com |
| Proxscal | High-resolution graphics | Within the commercial SPSS package | Frank Busing: busing@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |
| SAS | High-resolution graphics | Within the commercial SAS package | SAS Institute |
| Statistica | High-resolution graphics | Within the commercial Statistica package | info@statsoft.com |
| Systat | High-resolution graphics | Within the commercial Systat package | info@statsoft.com |
| Guttman-Lingoes | No high-resolution graphics | Freeware | |
| Faceted Smallest Space Analysis | No high-resolution graphics | Freeware | Samuel Shye msshye@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il |
| KYST | No high-resolution graphics | Freeware | Scott M. Smith: smsmith@byu.edu |
| Multiscale | No high-resolution graphics | Freeware | James O. Ramsay: ramsay@psych.mcgill.ca |