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Licensing

SAS Software licenses are leased on a fiscal year basis. License fees grant you the Right To Use (RTU) the software on one computer for the current fiscal year which runs from September 1 through August 31 of the following calendar year. License fees are not pro-rated, and do not include installation media. You must purchase a license for each computer on which the software will be installed.

SAS License Types

  • Teaching & Research License: As defined by SAS, is software used for purposes of classroom instruction, academic research, and course work primarily related to customer's post-secondary degree requirements, including the formulation of theses and dissertations. Used by students, faculty, and staff supporting such use.
  • Administrative Purposes License: As defined by SAS, is software used for purposes directly related to customer's operations as a post-secondary degree granting institution. This includes institutional research and any such use related to reporting about the University to the University. Such software may be used by customer's administrative employees (including faculty performing administrative duties) for such administrative purposes.

SAS licensing for Labs

SAS does NOT have a concurrent licensing method for university desktop/laptop computers. You can not buy 20 PC licenses and deploy them concurrently into a student lab of 100 computers and control the concurrent access via key server (or related) technology. If your labs or departments have been using this approach, following are your alternatives:

  • license ALL desktop/laptop computers that may run SAS during the year;
  • license the server version of SAS and deploy it in a terminal services environment; in this case your license cost is determined by the number of physical processors in your server; note: multi-core processors are treated as one unit
  • license the server version of SAS and deploy it in a virtual server environment on the server; in this case your license cost is determined by the number of physical processors in your server; note: multi-core processors are treated as one unit
  • use Softricity Softgrid technology from Microsoft for virtual application serving where the product is never installed on the desktop/laptop. If deployed in thin client mode (e.g., use from a web browser) you will license by the number of processors in the server. If deployed in non thin client mode, license by the maximum virtual processor count allowed.
  • use Enterprise Guide and Integration Technologies that are included in the product bundle to network lab PCs to a server in thin client mode. SAS technical support could provide assistance with this configuration.
  • ITS and the Division of Statistics also offer SAS for UT Austin users on Windows Timesharing Services. Refer to How do I access mathematical and statistical software on the ITS Windows Terminal Server? for more information.

Determining how to license Client-Server environments (Windows)

The defining criteria for determining what should be licensed is where the actual software will be executed. The rule is that if any CPU is running SAS it must be licensed.

These are the three different situations to consider when determining what to license:

  1. If you have a server with clients and the clients will be running SAS but not the server, then only the clients need be licensed. An individual license should to be purchased for each client.
  2. If you have a server with clients and the clients will be running SAS and you also allow logins to the server to run SAS, then both the clients and the server must be licensed. Individual licenses as well as a SAS for Windows Server license should be purchased.
  3. If you have a server with clients but you only allow the server to run SAS (i.e. the software is loaded so as not to be accessible directly by a client), then only the server needs to be licensed. A SAS for Windows Server license should be purchased and used in conjunction with Microsoft Windows Terminal Server or Citrix.

Work-At-Home Use

Under the SAS license agreement, work-at-home use is available to faculty and staff who have the SAS software installed on their computer at work. Each employee can use the SAS software at home (as an extension of the work license) provided that the software is not run concurrently on both machines, and use at home cannot exceed 20% of the overall utilization of the product.

Updates and Upgrades

In general, updates/upgrades are available to currently registered users for the cost of duplication and media. ITS will send announcements to current users whenever a new version is available through ITS.