If Microsoft software is your thing, students and staff can get it free! UST is a part of Microsoft's Academic Alliance, which now offers software for download. Windows Visa or XP, various Office products, Visual Studio, server software and more.

To get started tell the lab managers Saladin for QMCS or Tim for GPS and they can get you signed up.

There is a restriction of not using it for commercial software.

If you're not into Microsoft there is a variety of open source software available for no cost as well. OpenOffice.org, Eclipse, NetBeans, Apache httpd, MySQL.

Contact the club if you have any interest about this or other software.