SWQuestionaire
LDM Software Questionaire
When LNS/LDM were still married to ETHZ, we were available to acquire licenses for commercial
software at very favourable academic conditions. After the divorce, this is now over and many
software packages must be bought directly from the vendor. As PSI is usually not treated as academic,
but rather like government or business, these licenses are quite expensive. Thus we need to
find out, which licenses are still required. Below you will find a list of those software packages
which are particularly expensive. Please edit this page and add your name under each package you
really require.
For many scientific software packages PSI holds network licenses. Such licenses are free for us to use.
Network licenses operate in such a way that the program borrows a license from a central license server
on the network. Thus they come with a restriction: you need to be either at PSI or connected to PSI
via VPN for them to work. This is a problem for notebook users. They cannot use the software when not
connected at all or if they are behind a firewall which does not allow outgoing VPN. For the software
to work all the time, a standalone license for that particular notebook is required. This is usally in excess
of 1000CHF. Such packages will be marked in the list below with Network: free/ Standalone.
Please add your name only to the list if you require a standalone license.
Windows Software
Maple
Network: free, Standalone: 1800 CHF
Mathematica
Network: free, Standalone: 1500 CHF
- Balog S. standalone licence
Matlab
Network: free, Standalone: depending on toolboxes required ~ 1000 CHF
- Balog S. standalone licence, Toolbox: curve fitting, optimization
- Standalone: Mansson
- Standalone: Nikola Egetenmeyer
EndNote
225 CHF
SigmaPlot
735 CHF, an alternative is Origin at 150 CHF
- P. Hautle
- Origin 7.0 (Standalone): Cheptiakov
Photoshop
You need a very good reason to get Photoshop in the future. For almost all practical purposes,
Photoshop can be replaced with the free Gimp program which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
MathType
130 CHF
Crystallographic Software: all currently available and used: Atoms, Diamond, once per Year update of the PDF-2 license etc.: J. Schefer has the list;
Macintosh Software
Maple
Network: free, Standalone: 1800 CHF
Mathematica
Network: free, Standalone: 1500 CHF
Matlab
Network: free, Standalone: depending on toolboxes required ~ 1000 CHF
- Standalone: Pomjakushin,
- S. Gerber
IDL
Network: free, Standalone: 4060 CHF
EndNote
225 CHF
Photoshop
You need a very good reason to get Photoshop in the future. For almost all practical purposes,
Photoshop can be replaced with the free Gimp program which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
MathType
130CHF
Acrobat Pro
940 CHF
Microsoft Office
- should be on every Macintosh system M.Z.
iWork (Keynote, Pages, Numbers)
- Markus Z.,
- U. Gasser
- Pomjakushin
Parallels
- U. Gasser,
- S. Gerber
- Pomjakushin
Sophos
- must be on every Macintosh system M.Z.
StuffIt
CrystalMaker Updates >8.x.x
Atoms+Cryscon updates >6.x