Anti-Piracy Software Safeguards Educational Institutions Against BSA License / Piracy Audits and Staggering Fines.Business Editors BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2002 Executive Software International today announced the immediate availability of their new automatic inventory and deployment management software, Sitekeeper(R) 2.0 for Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R), 2000 and Windows(R) XP for academic institutions. With the Business Software Alliance's (BSA 1. BSA - Business Software Alliance. 2. BSA - Bidouilleurs Sans Argent. ) campaign on software piracy The illegal copying of software for distribution within the organization, or to friends, clubs and other groups, or for duplication and resale. The software industry loses billions of dollars each year to piracy, and although it may seem innocent enough to install an application on a in full swing, educational institutions need to quickly and accurately track software licensing on their sites to avoid harsh financial penalties. Through anonymous reporting and investigations, the BSA routinely audits organizations for proper software licensing and has won large settlements from companies using unlicensed software. Just this year, the BSA has collected $5.8 million in settlements in the U.S. alone. Although the general perception of BSA campaign is one focused on corporations, academia has also been the target of recent audits and raids. Government agencies have also lately joined in on the software license enforcement campaign. Last year, for example, law enforcement officials executed a coordinated raid involving around 100 sites in six nations and 27 U.S. cities, seizing computers -- including three from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, (MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) -- allegedly used to store and distribute pirated software. "The dangers and risks for academic institutions can be easily and economically eliminated with our new Sitekeeper product," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. George Goodrich, product manager at Executive Software. "The feature set and capabilities of Sitekeeper make it an exceptionally attractive solution for tightly budgeted information technology (IT) departments at universities and other educational institutions." Following the investigation and raid at MIT, the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Los Angeles' Associate Vice Chancellor vice chancellor n. Abbr. VC 1. A deputy or an assistant chancellor in a university. 2. A deputy to or a substitute for a head of state or an official bearing the title chancellor. 3. of Information Technology issued a memorandum stressing the importance of understanding University and campus policies that govern the appropriate use of electronic resources. The memorandum pointed out that it was equally important to ensure that proper licenses for all software be appropriately acquired; particularly as some software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. were complicated and easily misunderstood. Sitekeeper simplifies the task instantly scanning the entire network for the software installed on every machine, requiring only seconds per machine to collect and report this information. Additionally, administrators can input the number of software licenses legally owned for any application and in minutes Sitekeeper will isolate and report software compliance problems. Any unauthorized software can be instantly detected and easily uninstalled, from a single location -- right from the system administrator's own console using Sitekeeper. "Sitekeeper fully automated our software license tracking and will help us to eliminate potential liabilities from license and piracy violations," according to Johnson Jacob, director of information technology at Escuela Campo Alegre Escuela Campo Alegre, commonly known as ECA, is a K-12 American International school located in Caracas, Venezuela. It was founded in 1948 in the neighborhood of Campo Alegre, but the school grew in such a way that it had to be reduced to its present location in 23 de enero. , an American International school American International School (AIS) may refer to:  Australia: American International School, Sydney, AustraliaAustria: in Caracas, Venezuela. "Perhaps as important, Sitekeeper will also enable us to easily and rapidly ensure our software is current and up to date." In addition to the inventory and management of existing software features, Sitekeeper's Pushinstaller(R) feature enables remote installation of most software products and subsequent updates and patches throughout a network. Sitekeeper is available for immediate download at www.execsoft.com. For a typical department with 100 machines, Sitekeeper costs approximately $26.00 per machine. Special academic discount pricing is available. About Executive Software Founded in 1981, Executive Software specializes in focused development of system management tools for the enterprise. In addition, the company is the world leader in system performance/defragmentation software for Windows NT, 2000, XP and OpenVMS operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , producing over 90 percent of the network defragmenters used in the corporate market. Executive Software is located at 7590 North Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, Calif. 91504. Telephone numbers are 800/829-6468 and 818/771-1600. A variety of system management tools, trialware and free utilities are available at www.execsoft.com. Executive Software's European headquarters can be reached at www.execsoft.co.uk or by calling +44 (0) 1342-327477 Executive Software, Sitekeeper and PushInstaller are trademarks owned by Executive Software International, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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