On Fri, 6 May 2005, Juris P. Svenne wrote:
4.) Do you know with whom you need to speak regarding software licences held by the University, or do you know which webpage lists the existing software licences held by the University?
No, would like to know.
Hi Juris (et al), I'm copying the list on this E-mail as they may be interested in this section. The typical inquiry for software should go through:
1. Your LAN administrator, if they don't know then, 2. Myself. If I don't have it or know about it then, 3a. ACN's Software Team to request funding (for a course). 3b. The Bookstore (to purchase an individual copy).
I try to keep a list of all licenses held by the University. The information I collect is done on a voluntary basis, so I won't claim to know all of the available licenses the University has.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/sw-team/distribute/dept_sw.html
I also keep a list of the licenses that ACN maintains for the general use of the University. Online application forms are available here. Most of these include at least a media fee, and some of them require yearly licensing fees (although their costs are significantly cheaper than if you purchased the package on your own).
http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/sw-team/distribute/acn_site.html
Over the years ACN's Software Team's discretionary budget has been going more and more into maintenance agreements for existing packages, which leaves little for course requests. We'd still like to support funding for student courses, so this has resulted in licensing fees for some packages, and our most recent request to discontinue the SAS for Mac usage.
If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
5.) If you aren't using SAS for your statistical analyses, which software application(s) are you using?
I foresee a need to use Mathematica.
We have an application form here:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/support/pdf/mathematicaapp.pdf
Home-use licenses are available however there is a yearly license fee for those.