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Michael Lenetsky approved this process of having the department cover the cost.
- Enforcement hard (impossible?) since software doesn't require a licensing renewal. (This is unlike MatLab and Mathematica.)
- Benefits some research groups, much as the department subsidizes (to a greater degree) some groups who use ChemIT's computational server support services, such as clusters.
50+ $2600 for the site; approx. $50 per machine
An alternative is get research groups to pay the cost proportional to their use. Here's what happened when this was tried summer 2015: ChemIT was only able to get pledges for $1,300 from research groups for the use of LabVIEW for the 2015-2016 year (26 seats at $50 each). That left out groups who had chosen not to respond.
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