Computing Services Licensing updates Presenters: Karen Lukas, Applications Software Manager Kelly Mullins, SCS Computing Facilities Microsoft Campus Agreement: The university's agreement with Microsoft, the Microsoft Campus Agreement, has been renewed for the period running February 1, 2003 June, 30, 2004. By unanimous vote of the groups that share the cost of this license the following products will be retained on the MSCA for this period: Windows upgrades, Office and the Core Client licenses for most Microsoft servers. The following products have been dropped from the license: FrontPage, Publisher and Visual Studio Because the MSCA is an annual or lease software license, this decision means that all copies of FrontPage, Publisher and Visual Studio that are on university owned or personal computers under the MSCA must be removed from them by January 31, 2003 or new licenses must be purchased for them. Copies of these products that are covered by other licenses are not effected. Alternative licensing plans include: Select for Education, the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance (MSDNAA) and purchase of shrink wrapped copies. Departments are eligible to sign up for the MSCA Departmental Option. Groups that purchase licenses for dropped products need to uninstall them, then reinstall them using license keys for the newly purchased licenses. This must be done because it will not be legal to run these products under an MSCA license key after January 31, 2003. If you purchased media for products that were previously licensed under the MSCA they may have a label on the back of the CD sleeve containing the MSCA license key for the product. These labels need to be removed and replaced by a license key for the Select for Education product or the media destroyed. If you wish you can send CDs to Karen Lukas, CYH 262, for recycling. Departments for whom dropping FrontPage, Publisher and Visual Studio poses financial difficulty should send Email to lukas@cmu.edu to let us know and to tell us how many copies of these products you run in your department on university owned computers and how many of your faculty and staff exercise work at home rights for them. Here is additional information about the Select for Education and the MSDNAA licensing programs. Select for Education offers licensing on a per seat basis. You must purchase a license for each computer on which you install software. Under Select, licenses and software assurance (maintenance) can be purchased for FrontPage and Publisher, but only licenses can be purchased for Visual Studio. Microsoft does not offer software assurance for Visual Studio under Select for Education. I don't know why and Microsoft hasn't been able or willing to tell me. Select license prices are as follows: FrontPage, $38; Publisher, $34; Visual Studio.net, $53. They are available from the CMU Computer Store. Maintenance, where available, is extra as is media. If you've purchased media that you use with MSCA, you can use it also with Select licenses. You should not, however, use the license key that the computer store has placed on the back of the jewel cases because it is the MSCA license key. I would ask departmental computing support staff to remove these stickers from the jewel cases. MSDNAA, the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance offers licensing on a per department basis. Many interesting products are offered to academia under MSDNAA including Visual Studio, Visio, Project and several Microsoft servers, but use is limited to teaching and research. Departments must qualify for membership in the MSDNAA and qualifying departments pay about $800/year. Departments cannot build infrastructure using software licensed under MSDNAA. Microsoft provides a comprehensive description of this offering and an application form at: http://www.msdnaa.org. Several campus departments as well as GSIA and Heinz School are members already. This appears to be an excellent option and one I suggest departments investigate. MSCA Departmental Option: Academic departments can sign an addendum to the MSCA to provide any MSCA product that has not been acquired campus wide. Questions about the change to the MSCA, the MSCA departmental option and alternatives to MSCA can be addressed to Karen Lukas, lukas@cmu.edu and 412-268-5157. ----------------------------------------------------------------- License for Rational Products: Purify, PureCoverage and Quantify: Rational has dropped its academic volume licensing plans. Faculty and departments who use Rational products in their courses can obtain a grant of licenses under Rational's SEED program. Contact Elaine Couillard, SEED Program Administrator, to obtain a registration packet. For the SEED license grant program description: https://www.rational.com/corpinfo/college_relations/seed/index.jsp Elaine Couillard SEED Program Administrator Rational Software the software development company 91 Hartwell Avenue Lexington, MA 02421 seed@rational.com All others need to purchase licenses from Rational. To do that contact: Brendan R. Walsh Account Representative Rational Software Corporation Phone: (800) 728-1212 x. 25702 Fax: 303-544-7335 Email: bwalsh@rational.com Web: http://www.rational.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- License for Insure: The School of Computer Science has obtained a license agreement for the Linux and Windows versions of Insure as a partial replacement for Purify, PureCoverage and Quantify. SCS has used Insure for the last 4 years and has expanded the license to cover all campus users. In the near future Computing Services will set up a license server for Insure, begin distributing it from MyAndrew and the Andrew archive area and package it for distribution to Andrew Linux computers. --------------------------------------------------------------- Eudora Email software: For the last few years the School of Computer Science has licensed Eudora for the entire university. Qualcomm changed the terms of its academic licenses and increased the cost this year. As a result Computer Science has dropped maintenance on this license and suggests that people use the free version of Eudora in sponsored mode that users can download from Qualcomm's web site, http://www.eudora.com. Eudora for MacOS and Windows is no longer being distributed from MyAndrew.