Windows Software Available at OSU and for Personal Use

Note:

This is geared towards graduate students, but also provides some information for faculty. Faculty, for obtaining software, please see the Support Staff.

Most software is valid only while you are at OSU, and must be removed when leaving OSU.

Some of the free software the Support Staff has available for loan on CD.

For questions on Unix/Mac availability, please see the Support Staff.

Free:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader, at OSU's Software Download page.

• Aladdin Expander, at Aladdin's Site.

• Ghostview/Ghostscript, see the Support Staff.

• Internet Explorer, at Microsoft

• JMP, from OIT (Office of Information Technology) at 5th floor Baker Systems, for students.

• Matlab, from OIT (Office of Information Technology) at 5th floor Baker Systems, for students.

• R, an S-Plus clone, available at The R Project.

• SPSS. Fill out license at 025 Central Classroom, then download.

• SSH, at OSU's Software Download page.

• S-Plus, available for Department of Statistics full time students only, from the Support Staff. Also a free Student version for anyone is here.

• Systat. Fill out license at 025 Central Classroom, then download.

• Virus Scan, at OSU's Software Download page.

• Xwin32, at OSU's Software Download page. An X windows emulator.

Low Cost: ($100 or under)

• Data Desk. $100. From DataDesk.

• Mathematica. $30/year, at OSU's Software Download page. Note: this is not available in the Department and is for students only.

• Minitab. $100. Also, available on our Windows Remote Desktop servers. A six month version is also available for $30. See Minitab at e-academy

• Microsoft Products. $155. From the OSU Bookstore, the Buckeye Bundle includes Office Professional, Front Page, Visual Studio, and all the desktop operating systems. Although, if you don't need Windows XP, Visual Studio, Access or Front Page, it may be better to purchase the Office Student and Teacher Edition from Micro Center or Best Buy, which will allow you to install Office on three household computers for a little over $100.

Expensive:

• Exceed. $250. Use Xwin32 or Cygwin instead. See Above.

• Maple. $140. (This is a student full version. Site license version is available for TAs/RAs who have their computers on Campus.)

• Mathematica, from Physics. $1000/department. Note: this is the Department site license which we don't have.

• SAS. Only available on University owned machines. You can use it remotely on our Unix machines. Also, there is SAS Learning Edition available for $125. It's limited to 1000 observations, expires after four years, and may not have all the add ons we have, but does have the important ones. See: here.

• Stata. $145. (or $89/year) From Stata. Order Online, pay, then pick it up from OIT.

Maybe It's Easier in Matrix Form:

Even More Notes:

Most of this information was gleaned from OIT's Site License Page. Note, if it says available with a 100W or Research Foundation PO, or to faculty and staff only, that isn't grad students.

Unicomp used to be the campus computer store, where discounted software could have been purchased by students, but the University closed it, leaving a void. As it is now, go to the manufacturer of some of the software here to purchase student versions.

Current as of 8/23/04.