Obtaining and licensing software
Students, faculty, staff, and departments
IU has negotiated strategic licensing agreements with software vendors to make their products available to students, faculty, staff, and departments at reduced prices. These products are available through various avenues, such as IUware Online and on physical media. (Much of the information below applies to software for IU departments; for more information about purchasing software for a department, see the next section as well.) For more about what software is available and how to acquire it, see:
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Browsers
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Database, GIS, and image processing software
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Get Connected to IU's network from campus housing
- Get Unix software via anonymous FTP
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Getting statistical and mathematical software
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HTML editing software
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IU's software agreement with Adobe
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IU's software agreement with Corel
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IU's software agreement with Microsoft
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IU's software agreement with Novell and SUSE Enterprise Linux
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IU's software agreement with Red Hat
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IU's software and license agreement with ESRI
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IUware Online
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Personal productivity software
Additional information for departments
Departmental software purchases normally go through the IU Purchasing department. For information, see IU Purchasing's Contractual Agreements page. Click the appropriate vendor in the "Computer Software" category.
Open source software
The Research Technologies division offers open source software from its Open Source Software page.
Open source personal productivity software packages are also available.
