Summer 2016 (5/31/2016)

Summer 2015 (6/25/2015)

ChemIT charged the $1,800 department license to the ChemIT account.
- This nominally covers up to 50 seats.
Challenge: CU Software wants to know our actual counts since they bracket pricing based on counts.
- When we tried getting a count, we only were able to account for 26 of the 36 seats we were expecting to count.
- Enforcement hard (impossible?) since software doesn't require a licensing renewal. (This is unlike MatLab and Mathematica.)
  - AND most groups want to keep using their current version and not use a more current one.
- To get coverage for more than 50 seats, would cost us $2600.
- CU Software writes (6/23/15): We decided to break the departments into two tiers so that the cost could be shared more equitably between single users, departments with small install bases and those with large install bases. Because what we're doing is actually cost recovery for a campus license, the per seat guidelines are a bit fluid. We just wanted to differentiate between large and small. We aren't limiting installs and don't ask the departments to do so. We believe that lab managers will fairly estimate their use and purchase accordingly. If you purchase the small department license but have 52 installs, we're not coming after you. Most of the large users are well above that mark anyway.

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