OIT Site-Licensed Software

Duke negotiates with vendors to make software available to Duke affiliates for discounted rates or, in many cases, for free. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please e-mail the site-license office at site@duke.edu

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  • WinRAR - We are now offering volume licensing for WinRAR! WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format, as well as self extracting .exe archives. Buy a license now for only $8 - a $21 discount off the normal price.
  • VMware Academic Program - VMware is offering 1-year evaluation licenses of select products, including Fusion 3.0 and Workstation 7.0 for academic users. Faculty and Staff may renew their evaluation licenses each year, and students may purchase discounted licenses when the evaluation period expires. For more information, Faculty and Staff click here, and Students click here
  • PASW Statistics (formerly SPSS) Version 18 - SPSS has changed the name of its statistics package to PASW (Predictive Analytics Software), and the latest version is now available through OIT. Current SPSS 15 or 17 license holders may upgrade for free to version 18 with proof of a valid license (ticket number).
  • Stat/Transfer 10 - The latest version of this popular software is now available! Current Stat/Transfer 9 users may upgrade to version 10 for free with proof of a valid license.
  • TreeSize Professional 5.3.1 - A new version of the powerful and flexible hard disk space manager for Windows is now available as a free download to the Duke community.
  • McAfee Virus Scan 8.7 (Duke Build) – Patch 2 is now available for VirusScan 8.7 for Windows. This is highly recommended, and will fix known vulnerabilities with the software as well as correct outdated virus protection alerts in Windows 7.
  • McAfee Administrator Products - McAfee products such as ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), command line scanners, and Installation Designer are available to Duke IT Administrators at no cost.
  • Microsoft DreamSpark - Microsoft DreamSpark gives students free access to professional-level developer and design tools from Microsoft. This program is for students only.
  • EndNote X3 – The latest version of EndNote is now available for both Mac and Windows.
  • Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: The latest version of the Macintosh operating system from Apple is now available to faculty & staff.

  • New software evaluations

    Any member of the Duke community can submit a request for new software to be evaluated for use in academics, research, IT, or operations. Choose one of the two following committees for more information on the process.

    Academic Software Requests are reviewed by the ITAC Academic Technology Subcommittee (ITAC AcadTech).

    IT and Operational Requests are reviewed by the Software License Committee.

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