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SHI (Software House International) is UC's preferred reseller of licenses not directly available from campus volume software licensing offices like UCLA Software Central. Please be sure to check with SHI before ordering software from any other off campus vendor as they have exclusive pre-negotiated UC prices for various software titles. Items that are included in this special pricing are: Adobe, McAfee, Microsoft and Symantec. Software from other suppliers carried by SHI is also available at favorable prices.

There are few pieces of software that users touch more often than office productivity suites. The market leader is, of course, Microsoft Office, with the lion's share of all licenses for office productivity tools. But two trends -- open source and cloud computing -- are offering a new generation of Office alternatives that businesses may want to consider.

Here are white papers written by various vendors summarizing the pros and cons of Server Virtualization

All UCLA students, faculty and staff now have unlimited access to a full range of online software training videos and materials. Various training tutorials are available to the campus for products including Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and many more programs that are commonly used on campus. To access an online tutorial (accessible from any machine, anytime, anywhere), go to OARC Training to log in to the training resource that meets your needs.

UCLA maintains a dynamic knowledge base for IT related questions and answers.

UCLA has a myriad of IT related committees and organizations with various ongoing activities. A good starting point to learn about these activities and other IT resources on campus, is the UCLA BruinTech website.

Information covering a wide spectrum of UCLA faculty, staff and student's for home and at campus technology compliance needs.

Safari Technical Books Online is an electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals; includes full text of books published by O'Reilly and is at no cost to those accessing from computers using a campus IP address.