Site licensing
SCD's Database Services Group (DBSG)
site-and-volume-licenses
various software for UCAR as a whole and for SCD. In general, licensing
software for the entire organization must have benefit for SCD and
represent a significant savings to the organization. Examples of this are
the site licenses for educational vendor programs, such as Sun's ScholarPAC,
SGI's Varsity Program, and IBM's Higher Educational Software Consortium
(HESC). Administration of these licensing programs and distribution of
software through a single contact saves UCAR over half-a-million dollars
a year.
New in FY1998, DBSG
- Suggested changes to Sun that would assist program administrators
with the distribution of ScholarPAC products; some of these ideas are
being incorporated into their new shipping label.
- Added licensing of FORGExplorer and related products, Qualix HA+
high-availablility software, and DCE for SCD's UNIX machines.
- Added licensing of TRACK-IT for SCD, a daily electronic "magazine" of
IT-related information.
- Handled 150+ requests from SCD and UCAR regarding acquisition of
various versions of software, entitlement issues, and licensing issues.