Arrange with the vendor to have your staff and students - using your criteria - evaluate possible software purchases.

This build may be digitally signed, allowing the end user to verify the integrity and authenticity of his or her software purchase.

Those customers, who also have to deal with the Year 2000 adjustments, seemed to be holding back on major software purchases, the executives said.

Forty percent of American homes have computers, and one out of 10 packaged software purchases is a game.

This release was free with any software purchase, or available for purchase by itself.

Thursday's court decision could also cause corporate technology managers to hold off making software purchases, further hurting PeopleSoft's business.

That, in turn, can provide a bonanza in software sales because many software purchases are made at the time a computer is bought.

The company's program, Ichitaro, commands at least 60 percent of the market and is the first software purchase for many PC buyers.

Do not forget to include future software purchases in your budget.

In many cases, software purchases have reached what economists call the point of diminishing returns.