Quattro Pro support should, for the present, stay at level A. Courses on Excel will be offered. Norton Utilities IT Services is currently gauging the level of demand for this software and is awaiting replies from departments. The recommended software solution for each of these areas is different. For research the preferred software is Nud-ist. There is no site licence available for this product but IT Services will arrange a bulk purchase so that interested users may benefit from quantity discounts.
Manuals are extra.
An X based UNIX version is expected soon. When this is available it is recommended that consideration be given to installing this on the central Silicon Graphics machines. The recommended software for teaching is HyperQual 2. This software runs on Apple Macintoshes. Although not highlighted at the previous meeting of the Computer Users' Group, statistical analysis software is an area that does generate a lot of interest but suffers from the problem that votes tend to be spread thinly over a wide range of products.