WordPerfect Site License is Changing

By Bill Buntain, Director of Network & Microcomputer Services (buntain@unt.edu)

WordPerfect Corp. was recently purchased by Novell, a networking company. Novell has been restructuring the licensing agreements for all WordPerfect products, which is likely to be very beneficial for UNT.

Novells new program is a site license based on the combined population of faculty, staff, and students. As a site license, there is no installation tracking requirement, which should result in significantly reduced administrative costs both in the colleges and the departments and in the Computing Center.

The basic program provides unlimited on-campus use by faculty, staff, and students and the right for faculty and staff to have WordPerfect applications (WordPerfect, Presentations, GroupWise Remote, QuatroPro, etc.) installed on their home computers while they are working for the University. We are currently evaluating this program against other licensing programs we are participating in.

An optional extension to the program allows students to install the applications software on their home computers while they are associated with the University. We will not buy into this portion of the program until we have identified funding and determined a distribution mechanism for the software. We will update you on developments with this program as they occur.

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