OIT Software Licensing is evaluating the current and prospective usage of Mindmanager’s Mindjet software.
MindJet (http://www.mindjet.com/index_ab.html) has been requested through our new software evaluation request form (http://oit.duke.edu/comp-print/software/request/it_request.php) for central funding, and we put together a wiki with some information on the software and some of the purchase options.
If your department currently uses this software or if you have considered purchasing this before, we invite you to visit the wiki and comment on it. The information that we collect in this manner will help us determine whether or not central funding and distribution would be beneficial to the Duke community.
Wiki: http://wiki.duke.edu/display/OITSLP/MindJet
Summary of wiki: MindJet already offers a good academic discount for perpetual licensing but the bulk discounts are not steep enough to consider centrally purchasing and distributing perpetuals.
A site license is available, and we could recover the cost by selling 200 licenses per year at $50 per license or trying to organize departments to purchase it and distribute at no cost.
It is unclear how much usage there is, which departments would use this most heavily (Fuqua and NSOE have expressed interest) and whether or not $50 per year (or less if usage is higher) is something that people would want to buy into.
A site license centrally funded by OIT does not look likely, but if analysis uncovers overwhelmingly widespread usage, then we could look into that as well.
