| Minimum Workstation and Software Site License Subcommittee Minutes |
June 15, 2006
Meeting in LL-430 at 10 a.m.
Diana Osborn, Chair
Anti-Spying Committee Update
The committee is testing 3 products, though none are ready for a site license. The pro and cons
for each product will be given to the IT Managers on Monday the 19th. The committee is recommending
areas do their purchasing based on the pro and con information. Anyone interested in checking on
pricing should contact Diana .
Testers Needed
Patch management testers are needed for the Zenworks, Autonomics, and Landesk products. Anyone
interested should contact Diana. Also a server is need for the install of Zenworks, so if you
have one to loan let Diana know.
EndNote
According to the Software Survey, 81 copies are being used by Academic Affairs. The next step
will be to find out pricing for Volume purchasing and Site License purchasing.
Qualitative Statistics
According to the Software Survey, no copies are being used by Academic Affairs. Possible choice
might be HyperRESEARCH as it has a Macintosh and Windows version.
HyperRESEARCH is an easy to use qualitative data analysis software package enabling you to code
and retrieve, build theories, and conduct analyses of your data. Now with advanced multimedia
capabilities, HyperRESEARCH allows you to work with text, graphics, audio, and video sources -
making it an invaluable research analysis tool. It may have Volume purchasing, but we would
need to purchase 51 copies to see a price break. Diana will discuss this with Ginger
Stockdale.
Meeting Maker
Due to issues that have been unresolved, end of the month still looks like the date Meeting
Maker will go to the new version. Email message from either Bob Newhouse or Odum Ky confirming
this will be sent soon to MWSSLS and IACC.
Office 2007
Jim Edwards announced he has Office 2007 running on Vista in ITS. It is on a Dell Dual core
CPU with 1GB of RAM. System requirements is for an 800 MHz computer.
Contact Jim, if you
would like a demonstration. The interface in Office 2007 is completely different and xml
compatible.
Tutorial creation
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials
on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture
screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective
tutorial for your users. Distributed as freeware for business
or personal use. Available for all flavors of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only),
it outputs in a variety of formats:
- Macromedia Flash
- Standalone EXE
- PostScript
- HTML
- any of the BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF image formats.
SPSS for Mac
SPSS version 13 for Mac should release over the summer.
Next MWSSLS meeting will be on July 20, 2006 at 10 a.m. in LL-430.
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