School of Computing

IT Committee

Software plans summer 2007

Software provided by University-wide arrangements

Dept Software need User(s) Special needs Dependencies Plan (leave as is, unless specified)
ALL Microsoft Windows All     Remain at XP
ALL Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint) All     Upgrade from 2003 to 2007
ALL Microsoft Project Many     ? Upgrade from 2003 to 2007
ALL Microsoft Visio Many     ? Upgrade from 2003 to 2007
ALL Novell Groupwise All     Upgrade due later in year
ALL Macromedia Studio (including Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks) Many     Upgrade to Studio 8 (already installed) and make it the default

Web browsers

See our browser and plug-ins policy, which will be sustained.

Specialist software

Dept Software need User(s) Special needs Dependencies Plan (leave as is, unless specified)
SOC 3d Studio Max Jiacheng Tan
Brett Stevens CT)
Brian Heal (CT)
    Upgrading to version ?
SOC B Toolkit Matthew Poole   Linux  
SOC BlueJ Arthur Poyner
Robert Topp
Brian Heal (CT)
  Requires Java J2SE Upgrade to latest version
SOC Clarity Lite Tom Addis     ? remove
SOC First Class Peter Bednar      
SOC Greenfoot Robert Topp     NEW
SOC Inducer Max Bramer      
SOC Java Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) Arthur Poyner
Jim Briggs
Robert Topp
Shelley Cousins
Kit Lester
  Used by BlueJ and NetBeans Upgrade to most recent update to JDK 6.0
SOC Macromedia Authorware Emma Duke-Williams      
SOC Macromedia Director Emma Duke-Williams
Brian Heal (CT)
Roger Eglin (CT)
     
SOC Mapper Steve Wilson
Paul Gnanayutham
     
SOC Matlab

Alex Gegov
Ivan Jordanov
Jiacheng Tan
Graham Elliott (Maths)
Mike McCabe (Maths)
Roy Maartens (ICG)

    Upgrade to latest version (? 2007b)
SOC Matlab Fuzzy Logic Toolbox Alex Gegov      
SOC Matlab Genetic Algorithms & Direct Search Toolbox Ivan Jordanov      
SOC Matlab Neural Networks Toolbox Ivan Jordanov      
SOC Matlab Image Processing Toolbox Jiacheng Tan     NEW
SOC Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (VB/C++/C#) Arthur Poyner
Alex Bennett
Jonathan Crellin
  JOC's use requires Dreamweaver in the same location Upgrade from .NET 2003 to .NET 2005 (postponed from last year)
SOC NetBeans Jim Briggs
Ivan Jordanov
 

Requires Java Platform Standard Edition

Brings with it Tomcat, Sun Application Server and J2EE

Upgrade to version 5.5.1 or 6.0 preview (JSB evaluating)

Now without the nbxdoclet plugin (unsupported)

SOC OPNET IT Guru

Mo Adda
Gordon Early
Amanda Peart
Penny Ross

    Needs reinstalling (old version ceased working on 31 May 2007)
SOC Oracle database client / SQLplus Penny Ross
Angela Fletcher
Janet Delve
Richard Healey
     
SOC Oracle Designer Penny Ross
Angela Fletcher
     
SOC Oracle Warehouse Builder Janet Delve
Richard Healey (Geography)
     
SOC Perfect Developer Robert Topp
Alex Gegov
    Upgrade to latest version
SOC Python and IDLE Arthur Poyner      
SOC SAS Enterprise Max Bramer      
SOC Seqsim Steve Wilson
Paul Gnanayutham
     
SOC Sorensen Squeeze General   Who uses this? ? remove
SOC SPSS Clementine Student Version plus 'Text Miner for Clementine' Max Bramer     Licence renewed
SOC Textpad Robert Topp
Shelley Cousins
Roger Eglin (CT)
  Used by Perfect Developer  
SOC Ulead DVD workshop General   Who uses this? ? remove
SOC Win Prolog Max Bramer      

Software previously supported by CAM that is not being maintained by SOC

Dept Software need User(s) Special needs Dependencies Plan (leave as is, unless specified)
CT Adobe Premiere Pro Brett Stevens      
CT AlienBrain Andy Bain      
CT DirectX Andy Bain
Mark Eyles
Roger Eglin
Brian Heal
     
CT Glut Andy Bain
Mark Eyles
Roger Eglin
Brian Heal
     
CT PS2 development kit Andy Bain      
CT Sonic MyDVD Brett Stevens      
CT Unreal Tournament Brett Stevens      
Maths Maple Mike McCabe
Roy Maartens (ICG)
     
ICG WinEdt Roy Maartens (ICG)      
Maths MapleTA Mike McCabe      
Maths Matlab Financial Toolbox Graham Elliott      
Maths Micro Saint Sharp Patrick Beullens      
Maths Minitab Graham Elliott      
Maths R Graham Elliott      
Maths
ICG
Matlab Statistics Toolbox Graham Elliott
Roy Maartens (ICG)
     

Key

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Last updated by Dr Jim Briggs of the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth.