Software Store Blog

GeoTrust will conduct a scheduled site upgrade and systems maintenance from 1 p.m. Saturday 29, 2012 through 2 a.m. Sunday September 30, 2012. During this time, the Software Store will not be able to create GeoTrust Enterprise SSL certificates for customers. The scheduled upgrade and systems maintenance does not affect existing GeoTrust Enterprise SSL certificates.

SAS Institute released 10.0.1 Updaters for JMP 10 and JMP Pro 10. See the Release Notes posted at http://support.sas.com/demosdownloads/000981/JMP_1001_release_notes.pdf for details on enhancements, bug fixes and new features included in 10.0.1. The Software Store provides the Updaters to current JMP subscribers and added the Updaters to the JMP download in the Software Store.

With the release of Mac OS X 10.8 (i.e. Mountain Lion), Apple requires Apple-approved developers to provide installers that digitally sign into Apple's new Gatekeeper authentication system. You may get an "unidentified developer" error message if you use an installer that was released before the Mountain Lion release date (i.e. before July 25, 2012). Wolfram Research, an Apple approved developer, updated its Mathematica 8.0.4 for Mac installer to sign into Apple's new authentication system.

Microsoft released Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows Server 2012 DataCenter and Windows Server 2012 Standard to volume license customers last month. Vanderbilt has access to these products through our Campus Agreement.

Wolfram Research, maker of Mathematica, invites the Vanderbilt community to a free Mathematica 8 Tech Talk: •Topic: Mathematica 8 in Education and Research •Presenter: Troy Schaudt •Date: Thursday, September 13, 2012 •Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m., including Q&A •Location: SC 1206 •Directions: Go to http://www.vanderbilt.edu/map/ and select Building SC MATH Mr. Schaudt will illustrate capabilities in Mathematica 8 that are directly applicable for use in teaching and research on campus.

Vanderbilt students, instructors, faculty, administration, alumni, former students, and parents of students qualify for free shipping and combined coupon savings up to 50% through the HP Academy Program during HP’s Labor Day Sale. The sale lasts from August 29, 2012 through September 5, 2012. •Get an extra $100 off select customizable PCs configured at $999 or more. Use coupon code: LDS100 •Get an extra $150 off all customizable PCs configured at $1,299 or more.

Customers who purchased Parallels 7 between July 25 and September 4, 2012 through the Vanderbilt Software Store qualify for a free upgrade to Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac. Kivuto, the company that hosts the Software Store, will send an email with instructions on how to upgrade to eligible customers. Customers have until October 31, 2012 to redeem the upgrade code they receive by email from Kivuto.

E-academy, the company that hosts the Vanderbilt Software Store, will perform maintenance on the underlying platform on Tuesday, August 14th, from 6-7:30 a.m. Central Time. During this time, we will place the Software Store in "maintenance mode" and we will display a message indicating that the Software Store is temporarily unavailable. Please contact us at software.store@vanderbilt.edu or 615-343-3919 if you have questions or concerns.

The Software Store expects the following products to be released during August and September 2012: •Microsoft Windows 8 •Microsoft Windows Server 2012 •Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 •Thomson Reuters Endnote X6 •IBM SPSS 21 •Matlab R2012b Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 should become available during the second half of August.

The Software Store has upgraded Vanderbilt’s SPSS site license from Statistics Standard to Statistics Premium per request by SPSS users. Statistics Premium offers more advanced and comprehensive analytical capabilities. Statistics Standard includes SPSS Statistics Base, SPSS Advanced Statistics and SPSS Regression.