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The CUWMA has reached an agreement with Microsoft on a specially discounted
version of the MS Campus Agreement 3.0.
Background
The CUWMA/Microsoft Agreement
Background
The CUWMA and MS have agreed to a discounted version of the Campus Agreement
3.0, with a license that is annually renewable each February. CUWMA has
contracted with the Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC)
to manage the CUWMA's Consortium Campus Agreement. The FCCC manages the
largest consortium agreement in the United States with over 100 colleges
participating and manages more than 10 other state consortium agreements.
All distribution of software to faculty, staff, and students under the
agreement is handled by CUWMA via the FCCC, which, as the entity legally
responsible for the agreement, is also responsible for keeping records
of all sales to each faculty, staff and or student at each participating
institution. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft may audit the
purchase records kept for CUWMA by FCCC at any time during the life of
the agreement.
For questions on the agreement, an extensive FAQ is available on the Microsoft
website at http://www.microsoft .com home page and searching for Campus
Agreement 3.0 under higher education. For other specific technical questions
call Jeff Koh at Computerland at 408-519-3240, or email Jeff at jkoh@cland.com.
The CUWMA/Microsoft Agreement
Campus Agreement 3.0 Subscription from Microsoft is an annual comprehensive
licensing program specially created to address the unique needs of higher
education institutions. Campus Agreement lets your bring your institution's
technology up to speed in two very important ways:
1) By ensuring that your Microsoft software is always current, helping
you avoid unbudgeted costs for software upgrades.
2) By reducing the administrative requirements for managing software compliance,
software support and system downtime.
Available products
Campus Agreement 3.0 Subscription allows you to choose the most current
versions of any of the products listed below. You have the flexibility
to select the individual products you would like to license through your
agreement for both your Campus and your students:
Microsoft Office® Standard & Professional Editions
Microsoft Office Macintosh® Edition
Microsoft Windows® Desktop Operating System (OS) Upgrades
Microsoft Core Client Access License (CAL)
Microsoft Encarta® Reference Library & Encarta Online Deluxe
Microsoft Encarta Class Server CALs
Microsoft SQL Server CALs
Microsoft Visual Studio®
Microsoft Visio® Professional Edition
Microsoft Project
Microsoft FrontPage®
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Press® Windows 2000 Professional Step by Step Interactive
Microsoft Press Web Publishing Step by Step Interactive
Campus Agreement 3.0 offers many benefits:
Easy compliance - Because all of your institution's computers and
users are licensed for the term of the agreement, it's easy to be sure
that your institution is fully licensed for use of the Campus Agreement
products you've selected.
Low administration - Subscription licensing eliminates the need
to track licenses for individual Campus Agreement products on every computer.
This is especially helpful for managing software assets in a decentralized
environment.
Stay current on technology - With subscription licensing programs,
your users are licensed to run the most current version of the software
products included in your agreement, and your institution automatically
receives media for products that upgrade during your agreement term.
Simple budgeting and purchasing - One annual payment covers all
of the Campus Agreement products you've selected for the year.
Excellent value - By standardizing on a platform of products, your
total cost of software ownership is reduced while productivity and access
to current technology are increased.
12-month term
Microsoft Campus Agreement is a subscription that gives you the rights
to run the licensed software for a 12-month period, and licenses all upgrades
and downgrades of the software throughout the term of the agreement. At
the end of the term, you may renew the agreement, cancel out of the annual
subscription model through the Buy-out Option or remove the software from
your machines.
The price is right
Campus Agreement is based on a count of all of your institution's faculty/staff
Full-time Equivalent (FTE) employees. Pricing is tiered depending on the
number of FTEs. Since the Consortium's Microsoft agreement exceeds 3,000
FTE's, the price per FTE for participating Consortium members is $48.00.
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