Software Store Blog

The Software Store has received questions regarding whether or not the university and medical center can use software licensed through Vanderbilt’s Microsoft contracts for commercial purposes. We have consulted with Microsoft and Microsoft has verified we cannot use our Campus or Select Agreement software for commercial use. Instead, Microsoft requires us to participate in the Microsoft Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program.

The Software Store expects Adobe to release Creative Suite 6 (CS6) on April 23rd. Vanderbilt Software Store customers with active maintenance on their Adobe software will be eligible for a free upgrade to CS6. In addition, customers who buy CS5.5 products through the Software Store between March 26 and May 5, 2012 will qualify for a free upgrade to CS6. Adobe’s offer does not apply to Acrobat or Contribute. The Software Store will place a free download in the Software Store accounts of eligible customers as soon as we gain access to CS6.

Mathworks recently announced the release of MATLAB 2012a. R2012a includes new features in MATLAB and Simulink, along with updates and bug fixes to 77 other products.

GeoTrust, the Software Store’s supplier for Enterprise SSL certificates, has sent the following alert: The following changes address industry standards recently adopted by the Certification Authority/Browser (CAB) Forum, and will go into effect in mid-April: 1.Subject Common Name (CN) in Subject Alternative Name (SAN) field entries: During enrollment, the GeoTrust system detects if the CN is already part of the SAN field. For no additional cost, we will automatically add the CN in a SAN field if it is not already included.

Vanderbilt has adopted a new policy for registering, renewing and transferring domain names. Visit http://its.vanderbilt.edu/domain_name_policy to read the policy.

Coming soon, higher education faculty, staff and students will be eligible to buy Office 2010 and Office 2011 for personal use through a new program called Microsoft Office University 2010 & Office for Mac University 2011. Pricing is unknown at this time, but the estimated retail price is $99. Vanderbilt employees and students will be able to order and download Office University products through the Vanderbilt Software Store.

Starting April 1, 2012, Vanderbilt students and employees will no longer be able to buy the products listed below through the Microsoft Student Select Program: oMicrosoft Office oMicrosoft Windows 7 Upgrade oMicrosoft Expressions Studio This means Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff will no longer be able to place orders for these products through the Vanderbilt Software Store (http://vanderbilt.onthehub.com) under the Students/Microsoft Select tab and the Faculty/Staff/Microsoft Select tab respectively.

Please join Mathworks for a free MATLAB seminar for the Vanderbilt community. •Date & Time: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 2:00-5:00 p.m. •Location: Featheringill Hall, Room 134 (see http://www.vanderbilt.edu/map/ for directions) •Topic: Advanced Graphics and Visualization Techniques with MATLAB The seminar will focus on visualizing data, viewing images, and manipulating graphics in MATLAB. The presenter will: oExplore techniques for customizing graphical displays, generating animations, and creating publication quality graphics.

Beginning at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 4, e-academy (the company that hosts the Vanderbilt Software Store) will take the storefront located at http://its.vanderbilt.edu/softwarestore out of production.

IBM SPSS Statistics 20 GradPack is now available for purchase by students and IBM SPSS Statistics 20 Faculty Pack is now available for purchase by faculty through http://vanderbilt.onthehub.com.