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Information Technologies: News
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Enterprise License Agreement with Adobe
IU has negotiated a license agreement with Adobe Systems. The following e-mail notice was received from University Information Technology Services on December 10th:
Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that Indiana University has negotiated an Educational Enterprise License Agreement with Adobe Systems Inc. In the spirit of ITSP2, this three-year agreement allows for abundant and unlimited use of Adobe products by IU students, faculty, staff, and affiliates for teaching and learning, systems development, creative work, online collaboration, document preparation, and presentation. IU is the first and only higher education institution to obtain this highly desired agreement with Adobe.
IU has had tremendous success with enterprise license agreements, leveraging scale and institutional stature to benefit the entire IU Community. IU has realized over $270M of savings from these agreements in the past ten years. In 1998, Indiana University signed a landmark Enterprise Licensing Agreement with Microsoft that made the most widely used Microsoft tools a pervasive part of IU academic and professional life for students, faculty, and staff members. Just as Microsoft applications were, and continue to be, important tools for personal productivity, this agreement with Adobe now provides the leading set of software tools for an increasingly visual world. PhotoShop, LightRoom, Creative Suite, Acrobat, Flash, Cold Fusion, Connect, and other products have given Adobe a lead in visual tools for both Windows and Macintosh. Also included in the agreement are Cold Fusion and Flash server products, available for institutional use only.
This Education Enterprise License Agreement is a pilot higher-education agreement for Adobe. It makes a wide-range of Adobe software available to the IU community at no additional cost. This software will be available in the Adobe section on IUware Online at:
https://iuware.iu.edu/
(If you are a registered LSP, check the LSP section for institutional copies of the software and server products.)
Adobe software will also be available for purchase on media at vastly discounted prices in early spring semester 2009.
For more information about the agreement including details, support information, and podcast links, see:
http://uitsnews.iu.edu/?p=1431
Sue B. Workman
Sue B. Workman, Associate Vice President
Office Vice President, Indiana University and CIO
(812) 855-0913 (IU Bloomington) (317)278-9099 (IUPUI)
http://uits.iu.edu/
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