experience with software blanket contract in kyushu university
Information Infrastructure Initiative of Kyushu University decided to begin the blanket contract for several kinds of software in 2006 fiscal year to improve the research and education environment, maintain the appropriate compliance, and reduce the budget for computer software in our university. We first focused on the anti-virus software of Trend Micro and Symantec. It was possible for us to get a cheaper software price in bulk rather than purchasing individual packages. We introduced Virus Buster in October 2006 and Symantec Client Security in March 2007. The price became several hundred yen to buy and update anti-virus software. The number of anti-virus software is now over 16000 in total. We then challenged the Microsoft Campus Agreement. As a result, all staff members and students of our university can install Microsoft Office 2003/2007 (Windows), Office 2004/2008 (Macintosh), and Windows XP/Vista without extra charge except the initial charge since April 2007. We paid much attention to realize the compliance for software license perfectly. We applied many ideas for that purpose. We finally challenged the Adobe Contractual License Program (CLP) for staff members and students in our university. We could begin the program in Level 2 of over 20,000 points after many efforts to gather orders and now in Level 3 of over 100,000 points. Our activity reduced the budgets for software dramatically and improved the research and education environments effectively. This is the report of our activities and problems in our university
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