Installing Beyond 20/20

Question

I have been trying to get Beyond 20/20 installed on computers at the University -- particularly in the computer labs. I was able to get our systems people to do this in the past, but now they seem to have an issue with this. I received the following response as a result of a recent request:

"The Beyond 20/20 browser does not obey group policy, it cannot be installed on ADM machines. If there is a new version of the application available please let me know and I can test that to see if they have fixed the application. The easiest way to fix the problem would be to use standard Windows Open dialog boxes."

Has anyone experienced this at their institution? Does anyone know if the problem this systems person is describing is being addressed? I would very much like students to be able to open and work with IVT files at any computer in the university, particularly those in the labs.

Answer

2005: As far as I know there are no restrictions to the number of desktops that can have the Browser installed within the DLI community.

From the Past: Several years ago I requested the installation of the B2020 browser in our campus computing labs to increase access to the 1996 Census tables (like i said, the request was several years ago.) The Computing Centre would not install the browser until they had a license confirming that the copy they were installing was legitimate. Lynda Richardson, who was the DLI Liaison at the time, provided me with a document stating that the U of A was licensed through DLI to installed B2020 on our
campus.

I'm passing along this "old" news in the event that your computing centre raises the same concern. The DLI Unit will provide you with a document that you can give the software license administrator on your campus.