Departments are to purchase Apple products through the CDW-G supplier website in Workday. Only if CDW-G indicates in writing that the items cannot be provided are departments able to submit a non-catalog requisition to purchase directly from Apple via Apple's Online Education Store.
Apple Computer offers special pricing for LSU faculty, staff and students at their online store. As a Louisiana State University student, faculty or staff member, you may purchase Mac OS X through Apple's Online Education Store at reduced academic pricing.
Discounted purchases for student and personal use can be made at www.apple.com/us-edu/store.
Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching (previously "Imagine") offers Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career.
LSU is enrolled in a campus-wide Microsoft Azure Dev Tools Standard Subscription.
Eligibility:
Software items included:
If you are in a STEM department, you are eligible to purchase a subscription for Azure Dev Tools from the Azure website.
If you are trying to obtain the full version of Visual Studio, please contact your departmental IT person as this is purchased separately through Microsoft Select.
If you would like to see the differences between Premium and Standard or would like purchase Premium, please refer to Microsoft Azure Dev Tools Subscription Information.
For more information, please visit the Azure Dev Tools home page.
For information on past free resources, please see: Microsoft Imagine: LSU Overview.
OnTheHub offers discounted pricing for a number of other software items. Software discounts include certain Adobe products, Minitab, SPSS, LabView, S-Plus, Auguri Academic, iGrafx, Babylon 7, Inspiration, InspireData, Kermit, Entryware, and SigmaFlow.
Microsoft and VMWare products are no longer offered through OnTheHub. For instructions on how to receive these products, please see the following links:
Parallels is no longer offered through OnTheHub. If you are faculty/staff and need Parallels, please reach out to your departmental IT group or business office to make a request. If you are a student, please use the following form to request access: https://verify.sheerid.com/parallels-student/
The VMware Academic Program (VMAP) was a comprehensive usage program designed specifically for the academic community. It has now been changed to a free offering via Broadcom.
It includes licenses for the following products:
In addition to free licenses for instruction and research, VMware also provides academic institutions and affiliated organizations special discounts on VMware software and support when deployed as a part of their IT infrastructure.
For more information about VMware, visit the Grok article VMware: LSU Overview.
Students can install this software on their personal computers as part of their coursework or research projects; faculty and staff can use VMware software under specific program usage guidelines free of charge for academic research and classroom instruction.
NOTE: The VMWare client is different from VLab, the virtual desktop offered to all members of LSU which allows access to Computer Lab software remotely. You may install VLab virtual desktop with the following instructions: Virtual Lab (VLab): LSU Overview & Download. If you are having issues accessing software on VLab such as SPSS, please reach out to servicedesk@lsu.edu for assistance.
To download VMware client, you can simply download from the new VMWare Broadcom portal after creating a Broadcom account: Broadcom - Download VMWare
For help accessing VMWare via the Broadcom portal, please see this guide: https://www.mikeroysoft.com/post/download-fusion-ws/
Please note that VMWare's license model has changed to free for personal/academic use and our previous academic license will be discontinued. You will no longer need to request licenses and can simply download from the new VMWare Broadcom portal after creating a Broadcom account: Broadcom - Download VMWare
VMware by Broadcom announced that Workstation PRO 17 and Fusion PRO 13 and higher have become freely available for personal use.
Students, teachers, instructors, and lab administrators may use the free for personal use version on their personal machines, as well as in educational lab and research environments.
This version does not require a license key if used for these purposes.
A commercial license will be required only if the Workstation or Fusion software is running in critical and/or production environments, and/or if software support is required.
