Shared Purchases A type of software multi-license purchase, by a groups of campus departments. Coordinated by the Software License Coordinator, and possibly distributed by the UCD Bookstore Computer Shop. Perspective product's software license agreement must allow for this type of procedure. Software License Usually applied to a licensing agreement that allows software to be run on an unlimited number of CPUs. The number of users per CPU is not limited by the license where multi-user capability exists.
Some agreements have CPU limits so high as to be considered site licenses.
Site licenses are relatively rare. Some of their software license agreements allow for campus-wide distribution. The Coordinator's duties include responding to inquiries from the campus community, publicizing new licenses and agreements, and assisting with the acquisition process. The Coordinator's responsibilities do NOT include determining what software will be available or what software anyone can use. The primary goal - to consider, discuss, hardware and software license agreements beneficial to the UC system.