Software Directory for Macintosh Computers
(Updated 12/31/2011)
The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) offers the following Macintosh site-licensed and public domain software programs to members of The Ohio State University community.
NOTICE: The IT Service Desk can only accept eRequest's for departmental sales (faculty and staff only). "Site License Software- OCIO" is listed as an internal vendor.
Software Available :
Adobe Contract License Program:
Eligibility: Faculty/Staff departmental use via CLP; Student and fac/staff personal use available via WiredOut.
System Requirements:
- Please see individual requirements.
Ohio State University has entered into a Contract License Program (CLP) with Adobe. This contract provides for discounts up to 65% off of educational boxed product. An ordering procedure for departmental use is available on Software Downloads. Personal use for faculty, staff, and students may be obtained at WiredOut, also at significant discount.
Adobe Reader (current version):
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, Students; personal and OSU use permitted.
System Requirements:
- Mac OS X V10.2.8 or 10.3.x
- 64 MB RAM, 125 MB hard disk space.
- Macintosh PowerMac.
Adobe Reader allows you to view and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files with the original graphics and layout intact. It is available to faculty, staff and students for use on campus and on home computers. This version now also includes Document Rights which provides features when you open a PDF document with additional usage rights. These features include Save Document, Advanced Form features, Comments, and Digital Signatures. This is available electronically. To receive a download click Software Downloads.
Apple App Developer Kit (Standard and Enterprise):
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, Students; personal and OSU use permitted.
Cost: $34 per department
System Requirements: See SDK information
Ohio State has obtained two kits: the first is for designing and distributing Apple Apps for iPhones, iPods, and iPads for internal departmental use under OSU's Enterprise Kit from Apple; the second is a Standard Kit for distribution via the Apple App Store. Cost is $32/year per kit, per department. Kits may be used on OSU-owned machines for faculty and staff only for departmental use. View the procedures document for more information.
Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client (version 2.5):
Supported Versions: 2.5
Eligibilty: Faculty, Staff, and Students on main and regional campuses, available for OSU business use only.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- PowerMac or Mac with Intel processor.
- MacOS X 10.5/10.6 and higher (32 and 64 bit)
- 512 MB RAM, 50 MB free disk space.
OSUnet VPN service is designed as a solution for faculty, staff and students to be able to have remote usage to the OSUnet network that is authenticated and secure. This authentication is accomplished by a "client" VPN program which communicates with a server located at OSU. Available to faculty, staff and students at main and regional campuses and on your home computer. It is for university-related business only and must be left with your department and removed from your home computer when you leave OSU. This is distributed electronically only. To receive a download click Software Downloads.
Fetch (version 5.3):
Supported Versions: 5.3
Eligibilty: Faculty, Staff, and Students on main and regional campuses, available for OSU business and personal use.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Macintosh with PowerPC or Intel processor.
- MacOS X 10.3.9 to 10.5.
- 64 MB RAM, 55 MB hard disk space.
- Internet connection.
Fetch is a program that enables you to connect to a remote computer to send and retrieve files over the Internet using FTP (file transfer protocol) or Secure file transfer protocol (SFTP). This now includes improved capability with MacOS X 10.5, and allows you to upload files to servers using Copy and Paste commands. In addition, Fetch now is a Universal application and supports PPC and Intel Macs. Available to faculty, staff and students for use at main and regional campuses and on your home computer. To receive a download click Software Downloads.
FileZilla (current version):
Supported Versions: Current version provided by company
Eligibilty: Faculty, Staff, and Students on main and regional campuses, available for OSU business and personal use.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or newer
FileZilla is a free, open source FTP client that supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), among others. This FTP client does work with OSU Web Hosting. Available to faculty, staff, and students for personal and OSU-business use. Receive a download at software downloads.
Gaussian 03 Revision E.01
Supported Versions: 03rE.01
Eligibilty: Faculty, Staff, and Students on main campus, available for OSU business use only.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- IA 32-bit Intel Mac or EM64T 64-bit Intel Mac.
- Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later Tiger releases. Mac OS X 10.5 is not supported.
- 600 MB hard disk space, 256 MB RAM.
Gaussian is a program for computational chemistry. It uses electronic structure modeling to investigate chemical phenomena. It is available to faculty, staff and for classroom use. Home use is not allowed. It is available only for main campus. The right-to-use license is no charge. Faculty and staff will sign an End User Agreement which also contains a Confidentiality Agreement, which OCIO will forward to Gaussian, Inc. IT support staff are able to deploy copies to student labs but are not authorized to make distribution to any other faculty/staff. Each faculty/staff user must obtain their own copy from OCIO after signing their own agreement. Students in labs are authorized to use the software only for projects and assignments for courses in which they are currently enrolled. Each student must sign a departmental computing policies form to use the software. The media may be loaned out of the IT Service Desk (025 Central Classrooms) for 3 working days for installation. Software is distributed at the IT Service Desk. CDROM only.
GaussViewM (version 4.1):
Supported Versions: 4.1
Eligibilty: Faculty, Staff, and Students on main campus, available for OSU business use only.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Macintosh with G3, G4 or G5 PowerPC processor or Intel.
- MacOS X 10.3.9 or 10.4.9 and later.
- 300 MB free disk space, 256 MB of RAM.
GaussViewM is a program for computational chemistry. It provides a full-featured graphical user interface for Gaussian 03. It is not integrated with Gaussian, but rather is a front-end/back-end processor to aid in the use of Gaussian. It is available to faculty, staff and for classroom use. Home use is not allowed. It is available only for main campus. The right-to-use license is no charge. Faculty and staff will sign an End User Agreement which also contains a Confidentiality Agreement, which OCIO will forward to Gaussian, Inc. IT support staff are able to deploy copies to student labs but are not authorized to make distribution to any other faculty/staff. Each faculty/staff user must obtain their own copy from OCIO after signing their own agreement. Students in labs are authorized to use the software only for projects and assignments for courses in which they are currently enrolled. Each student must sign a departmental computing policies form to use the software. The media may be obtained at the IT Service Desk (025 Central Classrooms). Software is distributed at the IT Service Desk. CDROM only.
JMP (version 9):
Supported Versions: 8, 9
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff, and Students; Main and Regional campus use permitted; OSU-owned and personal machine use permitted. Use is limited to instruction, academic research, and coursework.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Any Mac computer running MacOS X 10.5 or later.
- MacOS X 10.5 or higher.
- 1 GB RAM, 110 MB hard disk space.
JMP is an interactive software tool designed for statistical visualization and exploratory data analysis. This is available to faculty, staff and students on main campus only. It can be used for classroom instruction, academic research and course work only. Home use is allowed for a holder of the license on campus. The right-to-use license is no charge. The codes may be obtained at the IT Service Desk (025 Central Classrooms). To receive a download, choose from the followinng options:
- 32-bit download
- 64-bit (coming soon)
LANDesk (current version)
Supported Versions: Current release supported; "Mid-year Upgrade Protection" ensures releases stay current.
Eligibility: Faculty/Staff; Main and branch campus usey permitted; OSU-managed machines only (including contractors).
Cost: Based on an FTE model. Obtain quote per below description.
LANDesk Software provides systems management, security management, service management, asset management, and process management solutions to organizations. Available to OSU faculty and staff for use on all OSU-owned machines and any machines that require management by OSU staff. OCIO Site Licensing and OCIO Security, with help from CFAES and other offices at OSU, have partnered to negotiate a three-year contract with LANDesk for departments to purchase a variety of their software from GovConnection. Pricing is based on a per-FTE basis, as calculated by Site Licensing based on departmental Microsoft FTE counts, and all departments receive the same price, regardless of size. Site Licensing recommends the Management Suite and Mid-year Upgrade Protection. To obtain copies of this software, request a quote from Pete Kelley, (800) 800-0019 ext. 76160 or pkelley@govconnection.com. OSU's pricing is guaranteed through June 2014.
MAPLE (version 15):
Supported Versions: 13, 14, 15
Eligibility: Faculty, Staff (GRA/GTA/GAA home use limited to persons on campus and/or in University-owned housing)
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- PPC: Macintosh with G4 processor or later.
- MacOS X 10.5 or higher.
- 2 GB of RAM, 2 GB of free hard disk space.
- Graphics adapter capable of 1024 x 768 resolution or higher.
- Macintosh with Intel processor:
- MacOS X 10.5 or higher.
- 2 GB of RAM, 2 GB of free hard disk space.
- Graphics adapter capable of 1024 x 768 resolution or higher.
A powerful and comprehensive interactive symbolic algebra system used for engineering and mathematical instruction and research. Available to faculty and staff for use on computers on campus or in their homes for university-related business. Available to graduate students who are employed as a teaching or research assistant/associate for use on computers on campus only for university-related business. Software must be returned when leaving OSU. This program comes in a desktop version and a server version. The server version may be used to run Maple in a LAN environment. Maple contains extensive Help after installation. Receive a download at Software Downloads. GRA/GTA students seeking use of this software should request the download be provided by their adviser or another faculty/staff person.
NOTE: you can access the Maple Application Center. This site offers a free online resource of technical solutions submitted by Maple users from around the world. When you link to this site, you also have access to the Maple Student Center for course help, Maple Power Tools which are add-on packages and The Maple Reporter which is published semiannually and covers new developments at Waterloo Maple, Inc.
MATLAB (current version):
Supported Versions: r2008a through 2011b
Eligibilty: Faculty, Academic Staff, Students. No third parties.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Intel
- MacOS X at 10.5.5 or higher.
- 1 GB of Ram, 1 GB of hard disk space for MATLAB only and the online Help files.
- Access to the C or Fortran compiler if building your own MEX files.
- Netscape Navigator 6.2 or above or Internet Explorer 5.1 or above or Safari.
- MacOS X X11 window system.
- Intel Core 2 required for x64-bit
MATLAB is an interactive environment for numeric computation that specializes in working with matrices. It combines a powerful user interface with 2-D and 3-D graphics and a comprehensive library of mathematical analysis techniques. This product comes in two versions:
| Faculty/Staff Configuration | Student Configuration |
|---|---|
* Funded by OSC. |
* Funded by Math and Physical Sciences |
Available to faculty and academic staff for teaching and research on OSU owned or controlled computers and campus computer labs. It is also available to faculty, academic staff and students for use on personally owned computers. Student use is limited to use in meeting classroom requirements and courses of study offered by OSU. Commercial use is prohibited. Additional toolboxes may be ordered. Please contact Tim Mathieu of The Mathworks at (508)647-7016, (tim.mathieu@mathworks.com) to inquire about quotations and orders for additional toolboxes. In this case The Mathworks will generate any additional license codes for add-on toolboxes (Child Licenses) for you to combine during installation with your Standard Configuration license codes. Download instructions and codes are available on OSU SLS; please choose the appropriate download:
- Faculty/Staff Instructions & Current Authorization Codes
- Student Instructions & Current Authorization Codes
The MATLAB TAH Install Guide provides details on how to install additional toolbox licenses NOT in the OSU Standard Configuration along with the TAH license for the Standard OSU license configuration. If you are purchasing additional toolboxes not in the Standard OSU configuration, you may want to read this guide.
Mathematica Faculty/Staff Edition (Current Version):
Supported Versions: 7, 7.01, 8
Eligibilty: Faculty and Staff for use on OSU-owned or personal machines on Main and Regional campuses. Student use in labs only.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Intel-based Macintoshes.
- MacOS X 10.5 or later.
- 512 MB of RAM, 3 GB of hard disk space.
This is a technical computing system used by science, industry and academia. It combines high-precision numeric and symbolic computation with data visualization and programming capabilities. This license was obtained by the College of Math and Physical Sciences. This version is licensed to currently employed faculty and staff. This software may be used on OSU-owned machines or personal machines in support of instruction of academic research. Research laboratories are not eligible unless their primary mission is the direct teaching of students. The software is licensed annually at no charge, currently. The license runs from September to September of each year. It is available electronically only. To receive a download and receive instructions to license Mathematica, click Software Downloads.
Mathematica Student Edition (Current version):
Supported Versions: 7, 7.01, 8
Eligibilty: Students for use on personal machines on Main and Regional campuses
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Intel-based Macintoshes.
- MacOS X 10.5 or later.
- 512 MB of RAM, 3 GB of hard disk space.
This is a technical computing system used by science, industry and academia. It combines high-precision numeric and symbolic computation with data visualization and programming capabilities. This license was obtained by the College of Math and Physical Sciences. This version available via electronic download through OCIO is "Mathematica for Students" and is licensed to currently enrolled students only. It is for use only on student-owned computers for instruction and research activities. The software is licensed annually at no charge currently. The license runs from September to September of each year. It is available electronically only. To receive a download and receive instructions to license Mathematica for Students, click Software Downloads.
MT-Newswatcher (verison 3.4):
Supported Versions: 3.4
Eligibilty: Faculty, Staff and Students for use on personal and OSU machines on Main and Regional campuses.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Macintosh with PowerPC processor.
- MacOS X 10.2 or later.
- 4 MB RAM, 4 MB hard disk space.
- Ethernet or modem connection.
Newswatcher enables you to use your Macintosh computer to read and post news articles on network news groups. This is available to faculty, staff and students for main and regional campuses and your home computer. This version runs on MacOS X only and is available electronically only. To receive a download click Software Downloads.
Oracle Database Software:
Eligibilty: Faculty, staff, and students on OSU-owned computers on Main and Regional campuses only. Not avaiable for non-medical functions at OSUMC.
Cost: Cost determined by product
System Requirements (most recent version):
- For systems requirements for this software please refer to the installation documentation on the Oracle media.
The Office of the Chief Information Officer has purchased a campuswide site license for the following Oracle software modules:
* Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition
* Oracle Diagnostics Pack
* Oracle Tuning Pack
This is available to faculty, staff and students on main and regional campuses for administrative, teaching, research, or community service functions. Commercial use is prohibited. It may not be used on your home computer or for personal use. It is not available for use in the OSU Medical Center for non-medical functions such as patient management and billing. It is available to you while you are affiliated with OSU and must be left with your department or OIT when you leave OSU. You will order software CDs directly from an Oracle MetaLink web site. For authorization to access this site to order CDs you will need OSU's Oracle Customer Support Identifier (CSI). A file containing this number and additional instructions, the Oracle CSI file, can be downloaded from OSU Software Downloads.
OzTeX (current version):
Supported Versions: Current version.
Eligibilty: Faculty, Staff and Students for use on personal and OSU machines on Main and Regional campuses.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Macintosh PowerPC processor.
- MacOS 8.6 or higher with CarbonLib 1.3 or later; MacOS X.
- 16 MB of RAM; 15 - 100 MB of hard disk space depending on application.
OzTeX is a Macintosh implementation of Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting system. The license was obtained by the Department of Statistics, so the normal Shareware fee has been paid. You may obtain the software by linking to http://www.trevorrow.com/oztex/index.html . Details of changes for recent versions can be found also at the above web site. A users guide is provided with the software. Available to faculty, staff and students for use on computers on campus for university-related business.
Parallels Desktop for Mac (version 7.0)
Supported Versions: 6, 7
Eligibilty: Faculty and Staff for use on OSU-owned machines on Main and Regional campuses.
Cost: New users: $36. Upgrades: $34. See below.
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Macintosh with Intel-based processor.
- MacOS X 10.5.8 or later.
- 1 GB of RAM, 15 GB of hard disk space.
Parallels Desktop for Mac is a virtualization solution for the Macintosh, enabling Mac users to run Windows (including Vista and 7) simultaneously with their Mac OS X on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro or Mac Pro Tower. This is available to faculty and staff and for student lab use on main and regional campuses for administrative, teaching, research functions. Commercial use is prohibited. Users may purchase new right-to-use licenses at the IT Service Desk (025 Central Classrooms) for $36/copy with an eRequest. This fee entitles you to upgrades during the subscription year, which rolls over each year on March 30. Upgrades after that subscription year cost $34. The software is available via electronic download from a Parallels web site. When you purchase a license you will be given a tip sheet, with the download site, and a license key.
The Parallels End User License Agreement must be signed by each user obtaining a copy of Parallels. To facilitate this process, you can click on the link above and display the license as a .PDF file which you can print, fill out and bring/send to the IT Service Desk.
ReadSpeaker Enterprise:
Supported Versions: Web-based; current version provided by company.
Eligibilty: Faculty and Staff for use on OSU webpages on Main and Regional campuses.
Cost: No cost
Provides end users a link on a web page that when clicked reads the contents of the page, with optional highlighting of text during reading. Users can also download an MP3 of the page. The web developer chooses the region of the page to be read and implements by including a "Listen" link and some JavaScript. Available for use on osu.edu and ohio-state.edu domains and sub-domains only, and only on HTTP pages (not HTTPS). "Listen" links will work in all modern browsers that support Flash and JavaScript. Browsers that do not support Flash will not be able to play back pages with the highlighting effect; however, clicking the "Listen" link in these browsers will display a link to download an MP3 of the page. Faculty and staff may download instructions for use at software downloads
RealPlayer (current version):
Supported Versions: Current version provided by company.
Eligibilty: Faculty, Staff and Students for use on personal and OSU machines on Main and Regional campuses.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Mac OS X 10.5 (with Safari installed) or later (10.6 or later recommended).
- 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended).
- G3, G4, Mac OS X compatible.
- Internet Connection.
This is obtained directly from the company, RealNetworks, Inc. The Office of Information Technology does not have a license to distribute this within OSU. You can obtain it directly from RealNetworks, Inc. if you agree to their license agreement. This software is available electronically. To receive a download click Software Downloads.
RefWorks (current release):
Supported Versions: Web-based; most recent version.
Eligibilty: Faculty, staff and students on Main and Regional campuses.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (most recent version):
- Internet Explorer 5.0 or later; Netscape 6.0 or later.
- Word 98 or later.
- Write-N-Cite requires: Word 98 or later and Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography. RefWorks is a web-based application and hence is available to users on Windows, Macintosh and Unix, etc. No downloading or installation is needed since you use your web browser to access this application from a server. Write-n-Cite is a feature which allows you to access your references in RefWorks while working within Microsoft Word. RefWorks has been acquired through the efforts of The Ohio State University Libraries in conjunction with other OhioLink member schools. OIT site licensing provides some cost sharing in support of this campuswide license. This application is available to faculty, staff and students on the main and regional campuses. To access the RefWorks web-based application, proceed to the OSU Libraries Research Databases web site.
SciFinder Scholar (current version):
Supported Versions: Web-based; most recent version.
Eligibilty: Faculty, staff, and students on Main and Regional campuses.
Cost: No cost
SciFinder is a web-based application which accesses a server at Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in Columbus, Ohio. The application provides easy, natural language searching of the "Chemical Abstracts" database by subject, author and chemical substance. To receive use the software please download the instruction document. For issues with this software, email the university contact, Belinda Hurley.
Secunia CSI/PSI:
Eligibilty: CSI Agent: any machine managed by the University. PSI agent: Any non-managed machine.
Cost: No charge
System Requirements (Dashboard):
Secunia is a patch scanner, designed to scan personal computers for vulnerabilities caused by unpatched software. The PSI may be installed on any OSU Faculty, Staff or Student machine, and a university-specific version of the software is available, while the CSI agent is available for OSU-managed Macintoshes. Secunia is currently in testing preparing for deployment to the entire university.
SPSS Statistics (version 19) (formerly PASW):
Supported Versions: 17, 18, 19 (20 coming soon)
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff and students on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines.
Cost: Faculty and staff: $32 per installation; students: no charge.
System Requirements (current version):
- Macintosh with Intel-based processors.
- MacOS X only. MacOS X 10.5 or 10.6, running Java Standard Edition 5.0 or later.
- 1 GB RAM.
- 800 MB hard disk space.
- Safari 1.3.1 or higher, Firefox 1.5 or higher, Netscape 7.2 or higher.
There is a change to the pricing model of SPSS with upgrades to v. 19. Please see below. A comprehensive statistical analysis package. Available to faculty and staff for use on the main and regional campuses and at home for university-related business. Available to students for use on their personally-owned computer.
SPSS for faculty/staff and for campus lab use now includes the Base, Regression, Advanced Statistics, Categories, Custom Tables, Forecasting, and Missing Values Analysis modules.
New, renewal, and upgrade copies of SPSS for Faculty and Staff may be purchased for $32 per copy.* Payment must be made by eRequest to the IT Service Desk, 025 Central Classrooms, prior to receiving codes. Licenses purchased until 06/30/11 may be upgraded during that time at no additional charge. Upgrades after that date and until 06/30/12 will require a renewal of the maintenance at the same cost.
SPSS for student home/laptop use includes PASW Statistics, Regression, Advanced Statistics, Custom Tables, and Tables Original modules, and is available to students at no charge.
*Note on cost: Customers in the following colleges are not required to purchase the software, and may request codes without payment. This is because these departments have already paid a single cost for the licenses on all their faculty/staff machines:
- Arts and Sciences†
- Children's Hospital/Pediatrics
- Communications
- Education and Human Ecology
- Engineering
- Fisher College of Business
- Optometry
- OCIO
- Pharmacy
- Social Work
- Regional Campuses
- Lima
- Mansfield
- Marion
- Newark
- Wooster
† - Unit has also paid for Amos use
New users may obtain the software media via download on the software download pages. The software license code must be renewed on an annual basis. The IT Service Desk will provide Authorization codes. Software must be returned to the IT Service Desk or left with your department when you leave OSU.
New faculty/staff SPSSusers can view and print the SPSS License Agreement, fill it out and bring it to the IT Service Desk to obtain the software. Faculty and Staff must provide an eRequest for $32 per copy to receive codes unless their department is on the above list. Students can print the corresponding PASW Student License Agreement and fill it out as above. Users may also walk in to the IT Service Desk and fill out an agreement there. Please bring a valid university ID.
STATA (version 12):
Supported Versions: 12
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff and students on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines.
Cost: Varies; see link below
System Requirements (current version):
- PowerMac or Intel-based processor.
- MacOS X 10.5 and later.
- 1 GB of RAM; 1 GB free hard disk space.
- 32- and 64-bit versions are offered on Grad Plan.
STATA is an environment for manipulating and analyzing data using statistical and graphical methods. It is an integrated package, not a collection of separate modules. This is available as part of the StataCorp Grad Plan, originally administered by the Statistics dept. OIT is now distributing this at their request. Available to faculty, staff, and students on main and regional campuses and on home computers. If you purchase with your own funds you own the software license. Licenses purchased with OSU funds remain with OSU. To purchase, call 800-782-8272 or go to the StataCorp site. Once you have ordered the software, your order should normally be available for pickup at the IT Service Desk, 025 Central Classrooms, the next business day (notices are sent via e-mail when the software is available for pickup). The software comes boxed from StataCorp. All materials you have ordered are in the distribution.
StuffIt Expander:
Supported Versions: Current version supplied by company
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff and students on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines.
Cost: Varies; see link below
System Requirements (current version):
- 32 MB RAM; 20 MB disk space
- Mac Classic (PowerPC and Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.x)
- MacOS X (Mac OS 10.3 and higher)
StuffIt Expander provides access to many file formats downloaded from the Internet, sent via email or delivered to you on hard copy media from Mac, PC or Unix machines. It is available to all faculty, staff and students. This is freeware. A link is provided on the electronic download pages to aid in downloading convenience for OSU users who want to obtain the latest version. To receive a download click Software Downloads.
TN3270 X (version 3.2.4):
Supported Versions: 3.2.4
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff and students on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines.
Cost: No charge
System Requirements (current version):
- Macintosh with a PowerPC G3 or later processor and Intel based Macs, although it does not run natively on Intel-based Macs.
- MacOS X 10.2.8 or later.
TN3270 allows a Macintosh computer with a TCP/IP network connection to negotiate a telnet session emulating an IBM 3270 terminal. Features of this release include support for Kerberos 4 and Kerberos 5 authentication and encryption and support for negotiated SSL using the telnet Start TLS option. It is available to all faculty, staff and students. OCIO has obtained permission from the author at Brown University to distribute this software to OSU. To receive a download click Software Downloads.
TurningPoint (current version)
Supported Versions: Current version provided by company.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff and students on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines.
Cost: No cost.
System Requirements (current version):
- Macintosh with a PowerPC G3 or later processor and Intel-based Macs.
- MacOS X 10.3 or later.
- 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended), 10 MB hard disk space; full installation (all options) of Office 2004 Mac.
- Standard USB 1.1/2.0 port.
TurningPoint is software that OSU instructors and staff can use to add interactive polling/quizzing slides to a PowerPoint presentation. They can make a request to have OIT Classroom Services install the software in a Classroom Pool room's lectern computer by sending an e-mail to clickers@osu.edu. Please specify that you want the antenna installed on the Mac computer if you are creating the slides with "TurningPoint for Mac". You can not do polling on the Windows version of TurningPoint with slides created with the Mac version and vice versa. This is available electronically only. To receive a download click Software Downloads.
Variations 5.0.4
Supported Versions: 5.0.4
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff and students on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines.
Cost: No cost.
System Requirements (current version):
- Macintosh with Intel processor or PowerPC G3 500MHz or later;
- MacOSX 10.4 or later;
- 256 MB RAM (512 MB preferred);
- 4 GB free disk space;
- Internet connection of at least 45 Kbps
A Digital Music Repository software package offered by the Ohio State University Music and Dance Library. It is a tool to assist instructors in demonstrating musical concepts by annotating musical scores and audio files and sharing them with students. It allows students to study these compositions outside of the classroom at most web-enabled personal computers. This is all done while unobtrusively enforcing the rights of the works' copyright holders based on the students' course enrollment.Available to faculty, staff, and students at software downloads.
VirusScan (version 9.1) [a.k.a. McAfee Security for Mac 1.1]
Supported Versions: 9.1
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff and students on Main and Regional campuses, for use on personally- or OSU-owned machines.
Cost: No cost
System Requirements (current version):
- Macintosh with an Intel-based processor.
- MacOS X 10.5 and higher, including 10.6/10.7.
- 1GB of RAM, 300 MB of free hard disk space.
This is a desktop program for detecting and removing computer viruses and spyware. New features for Mac users include Mac OS X Lion support. Available to faculty, staff and students on campus and home computers. You have the right to use the software while affiliated with The Ohio State University. The software must be left with your department and/or removed from your home computer should you leave OSU as the licenses are owned by OSU. Data signature files (DAT files) are also available at the web site below. This product also features eUpdate for automatic update of DAT files. This is available electronically only. To receive a download click Software Downloads.
VMWare:
Supported Versions: Varies, see order form.
Eligibilty: Faculty and staff on Main and Regional campuses, for use on OSU-owned machines.
Cost: Varies; see order form.
System Requirements (current version):
Through an agreement with OARNet, VMWare is now available at substantial discounts from market cost. Among the products offered are: View Enterprise, View Premier Add-on, ESX Enterprise, Lifecycle Manager, Site Recovery Manager, Mgmt. & Auto. Bundle, Lab Manager, Stage Manager, VirtualCenter, ThinApp Suite, ThinApp Client, Fusion, Fusion Support Pack, Workstation. Please see the OARNet website for ordering instructions and forms. Once reviewed by an OARnet Client Service Representative, your order will be forwarded to VMware representatives, who then will provide you with download instructions and a product key. Once the orders and downloads have been completed, VMware (1-877-486-9273 or vmware-higher-education@oar.net) will be directly responsible for providing you with product support.
The Order Form must be filled out to obtain this software. Questions regarding the Order Form should be directed to OARNet at vmware-higher-education@oar.net, fill the form out and fax it to 1-614-728-8110, Attn: Virtualization Orders.
CONTACT: For questions concerning this web page, please contact software@osu.edu or 614-688-HELP.