A KeyServer for faculty, not just labs

Academic lab managers have been using Sassafras's KeyServer software for more than a decade to manage software licenses. KeyServer is server-based license management software that allows lab managers to install dozens of licensed software packages on most or all of their lab computers, even if they own just a few licenses for each software package. This paper describes the use of KeyServer in a non-lab environment. The School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon installed a new KeyServer to reduce software costs for faculty computers. Faculty in our school, as they have become more comfortable with technology, have begun to purchase and use more advanced and more expensive software; if this trend continues, the potential expenditure is quite large, a problem in a time of tighter than usual budgets. Our goal was to maximize the availability of new software packages while minimizing software costs to departments in the school. Once a program is on the KeyServ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SIGUCCS
• Authors: Christopher Jones
• Keywords: Information Management, Sassafras's KeyServer Software, SIGUCCS 2003, Software, Software Packages