Site Licenses

Zoology Site-Licenses

Site-licensing and "software deals" are available at a couple of levels. UBC site-licensed software can be purchased from IT Services at their sales desk by any faculty, staff or student. Their current list includes Maple V, MATLAB, SAS, S-PLUS, and SPSS.

The Zoology Computing Unit pays for the bulk purchase of antivirus software, available to all people with a Zoology computer account (member or free).

Through the Zoology Computing Unit, good prices are available for Microsoft, and Macintosh operating system software. Check our prices before heading to the Bookstore. Last time I compared, you'd have to buy from the Bookstore and hold onto the same version for over 3 years before that strategy would be cheaper than the following rates including annual maintenance fees. And the annual maintenance fees mean that you get any updates that come along. In short, these are a good deal (and a cheap way to have a LEGAL copy). Rates as of 1 Feb 1999:

                                          Optional   Windows
                                Initial    Annual      or
                                  Fee    Maintenance   Mac
          
          Microsoft Office std.    89        43        W,M
          MS Office Pro w/Access  109        51        W
          MS Office Pro w/FoxPro  109        51        W,M
          
          Access                   63        19        W
          Excel                    63        19        W,M
          FoxPro                   63        19        W,M
          FrontPage                87        27        W
          PowerPoint               63        19        W,M
          Project                  87        27        W,M
          Schedule+                53        n/a       W
          Visual Basic             63        19        W
          VisualC++                75        23        W
          VisualJ++                75        23        W
          Word                     63        19        W,M
          
          Windows 95 Upgrade       90        n/a       W
          Windows 98 Upgrade       75        n/a       W
          Windows NT Workstation   75        n/a       W
          Windows NT Server       250        n/a       W
          Windows NT Access Lic.   12        n/a       W
          Macintosh OS 8.5         70        n/a         M

The above-tabled prices are available only for university-owned computers. Manuals and technical support are not included. It is now possible to buy the annual maintenance even for licensed copies bought elsewhere.