Software Availability in CSC Department:
Adobe:
Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Professional (NEW)
The department of Computer Science is now participating in the Adobe Term Site License for Acrobat. With the Adobe Term Site License, our department is entitled to have Mac/Win Acrobat 9.0 Professional installed on any departmental-owned computer at not cost to the faculty or staff.
Adobe Acrobat is used to create, edit, and merge PDF files.
To request installation email us at help@csc.ncsu.edu.
Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is also available for free to all eduction customers. This includes all students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions. More information can be found here: https://freeriatools.adobe.com
All other Adobe Products must be paid for per user. Researchers will need to cover the cost of purchasing all Adobe products.
- The University has an agreement with Adobe to get products at a greatly reduced rate.
- If graduate students need Adobe, a license will need to be purchased for each graduate student machine.
- Faculty are allowed to install Adobe products on one work (departmentally owned) and one home (personally owned) machine. We cannot install the software on two work machines with only one license.
- Adobe licenses include a license certificate with a license key. Faculty members should hold onto this certificate as the key is required to install any software.
- Adobe licenses do not include media. If the IT Staff already has media, we can loan it to faculty members to install the software. Otherwise, the faculty member will need to purchase the media for an additional cost.
- All Adobe products under the agreement as well as pricing can be found here: http://www.ciacentral.com/ncadobe/interact3.htm
Adobe Acrobat Alternatives:
Adobe Acrobat is used to create, edit, and merge PDF files. People often do not need all of this functionality.
- If you only want to create PDF files from Microsoft Office Documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) Office 2007 has a free plug-in that will allow you to create PDF files without having to purchase Adobe Acrobat. It will not allow you to edit PDF files, but you can edit the Office document, and then re-create the PDF file.
- If you are running a Mac, you can print any file to a PDF without buying Adobe Acrobat. The capability is built right into the operating system.
- If you are running a machine with Windows XP, you can use PDFCreator. It is a free software that creates a PDF write as a printer object.
Adobe Dreamweaver V8 for Win:
The department has 4 concurrent licenses for CSC faculty use of Dreamweaver V8 WIN via VCL. The VCL reservation name is "Dreamweaver V8 CSC (Win)"
Antivirus:
Antivirus is required for ANY computer connected to the NC State University system. You can download antivirus software for free from: http://oit.ncsu.edu/antivirus
Apple Products:
- Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) – Faculty members will need to buy Mac OS X on a per computer basis. For university owned equipment, OIT has a purchasing agreement that allows faculty to buy licenses for only $59 each. The CSC IT Staff has media and can help you upgrade or reinstall any Mac equipment. More information can be found here: http://www.ncsu.edu/software/available-software/product.php?software=106
- All other Mac products can be purchased from the Apple Online Store or the University Bookstore on a per computer basis.
Microsoft Products (Volume License):
The following products can be installed on any computer owned by the department (including faculty and graduate desktops and servers paid for with research funds)
- Office 2003
- Office 2007
- Visio 2003
- Visio 2007
- Office 2008 (for Macintosh)
- Visual Studio 2005
- Visual Studio 2008
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista Business
- Windows 7 Enterprise
- Windows Server 2003 (all versions)
- Windows Server 2008 (all versions)
Microsoft Office Home User Program:
Faculty and Staff are now eligible to participate in Microsoft's Software Assurance Home Use Program (HUP). This program enables you to get a licensed copy of Microsoft Office software to install and use on your home computer without restricting it to work-only purposes. You are eligible to use the Home Use Program software as long as you are an employee at NCSU. See university Microsoft Office Home Use Program Web site for more information.
Microsoft Products (MSDNAA): 
Almost all other Microsoft products can be downloaded from MSDNAA. Software from MSDNAA can be installed on ANY computer, regardless of who owns it. Please see www.csc.ncsu.edu/msdnaa for requirements on eligibility to access MSDNAA.
VMware Academic Program (VMAP):
This program allows CSC faculty and students download full-version VMware licenses, free of charge, as long as they are used for teaching or research. Visit our VM Academic Program page for more information.
Spyware and Malware:
Windows Vista (any edition) will have Windows Defender built in. This tool is quite good at detecting spyware and malware. For people running Windows XP, Windows Defender can be downloaded from Microsoft at the following link: Microsoft Downloads
Please e-mail any questions about software or licensing to the IT Staff at help@csc.ncsu.edu.
Please e-mail Ann Hunt aehunt@ncsu.edu to purchase software.
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