Funny you should ask.... we just had this discussion at our staff
meeting.  We've determined that Faculty members should approach their
departments to obtain a copy of adobe.  Our rationale:  If we maintain a
copy (or copies) in our central administration office for use by all of
the university, there undoubtedly will be conflicts at crunch submission
times.  We will also have to police the sign-out and chase people to get
the software back.

In addition, the minimal cost of adobe is an investment that departments
can use to prove their commitment to research support for their faculty
members.

Good luck!

-Matt

Eleanor Cicinsky wrote:
>
> Some faculty members are complaining that they are not equipped with the
> proper software to do proposals via FASTLANE and are wondering if the
> University should be providing the software?  By University, I suppose
> they mean the administrative units or the Grants Office.   They are
> having problems because they use Linux and other packages and do not
> have Adobe Acrobat and don't use Word etc. etc.    Have any of you had
> this problem and would you say the faculty should contact their chairs
> and deans about getting proper software or just stop complaining and buy
> the things necessary?
>
> Thanks,
>   Eleanor Cicinsky
>
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