Changes to the OSU Buckeye Bundl

Changes to the OSU Buckeye Bundle and Planning Notes

The current Microsoft Campus Agreement, distributed at Ohio State 
as the Buckeye Bundle 2, ends on June 30, 2007. A team 
representing academic clusters and major VP areas was convened to 
study options for continuing with the Campus Agreement and to 
recommend options. These recommendations have been reviewed and 
approved by the university administration and will result in 
three major changes, effective July 1:

1. Funding for the Buckeye Bundle for university owned equipment 
will be done through a campus-wide assessment. This means that 
the department's costs for their faculty and staff and lab 
computers will be paid annually. Users will not have to pay a 
license fee for individual copies of the Buckeye Bundle for 
university owned equipment. There will still be a nominal fee to 
obtain the CD and DVD media for departmental installations.

2. The content of the Buckeye Bundle is being set to Windows 
Upgrades, Office Enterprise (Windows or Macintosh) and the CORE 
CAL (the CORE CAL provides legal authenticated access to various 
Microsoft servers, such as Windows, Exchange). This means that 
FrontPage and Visual Studio Pro are no longer provided on the 
Buckeye Bundle after June 30.

Departments that had deployed Visual Studio Pro and/or FrontPage 
on Buckeye Bundle 1, before July 1, 2004, may continue to run 
those versions. The highest level versions you may run from a 
Buckeye Bundle 1 license are shown below:

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional for Windows 
FrontPage 2003

Any copies of Visual Studio Pro or FrontPage installed by 
departments after June 30, 2004 under a Buckeye Bundle 2  license 
must be removed from university owned equipment, or replaced with 
licensed copies of these products by July 1, 2007.

3. Students will no longer be covered on the Student Option of 
the Campus Agreement. Students will be able to obtain Microsoft 
software at attractive prices under the Student Select Option of 
OSU's companion license, Microsoft Select. These licenses will 
not include version upgrades, but the licenses will be perpetual 
licenses.

Departments that use FrontPage and/or Visual Studio Pro, obtained 
on Buckeye Bundle 2 after June 30, 2004,  will need to review 
acquisition options if they intend to continue use. Orders should 
be completed by July 1, 2007. There are a couple of options:

-  Departments (colleges) that need a product, such as Visual 
Studio, are able to complete their own Campus Agreement 
Enrollment under OSU's Campus Agreement. The purpose of this is 
to a) list the departments that will be using software ordered 
under this Enrollment and  b) enumerate the full-time equivalency 
(FTE) for the faculty and staff in those departments. Once the 
Enrollment Agreement is completed, software would be ordered for 
those departments from the OSU reseller for our Campus Agreement. 
Contact Chuck Sechler, sechler.1@osu.edu, for more information.

-  If only a few faculty/staff in a department require a product 
like FrontPage (or its follow-on product Office SharePoint 
Designer), a simpler approach might be to order that on the 
Microsoft Select license as individual copies. Contact 
information for OSU's current reseller is available on the 
Microsoft Licensing web site at

http://oit.osu.edu/site_license/mslicense/answers.html#Anchor-What-53555

Students now use Buckeye Bundle 2 software on a subscription 
basis, which ends on June 30, 2007. If they are not graduating by 
June 30,  they must remove that software from their computer. 
This was covered in their student acceptance form when they 
purchased the software. If they are graduating by June 30, they 
can apply at UniPrint to receive a perpetual license certificate 
for their software. This will be covered in more detail in 
information sent out to students separately.

Under Student Select, faculty and staff are currently able to 
purchase one copy of certain Microsoft software titles for 
personal use on their owned computer. This will continue to be 
offered. Current titles are shown at

http://buckeyebundle.osu.edu/faculty.html

Availability and pricing information regarding student purchases 
on Student Select will be announced in the near future.

Additional information on these changes and planning help for 
various audiences is being prepared and will be available over 
the next few weeks. The CIO Communications, Marketing and 
Planning group is coordinating an overall plan to provide this 
information.

Chuck.