If you use OpendTect, either as an end-user, or as a programmer, you automatically agree with the OpendTect license agreement. Commercial usage of the software, and software derived from OpendTect, are subject to a modest annual maintenance & support fee. If you want to use OpendTect in projects with a commercial intent you are thus obliged to sign the OpendTect maintenance agreement and pay the annual fee.

Annual maintenance & support fee: €1600 per simultaneous user

Additional to OpendTect base you may want to purchase commercial plugins. Such plugins are covered by separate license agreements with the respective vendors.

For SSIS, Dip-steering, Neural networks, Spectral Blueing, Coloured Inversion and Workstation access plugin licenses, please visit the dGB web-site

Universities can sign a R&D license agreement, to get free access to the commercial OpendTect plugins.

OpendTect Release Notes | dGB Release Notes | ARK-CLS Release Notes

Please read the installation instructions or check the  application managment documentation (HTML or PDF)for more information. Please note that you always need to download the installation scripts separately.

To use cross-platform distributed computing, you need to download all platforms you intend to use.

OpendTect requires a good, working OpenGL installation. OpenGL support is often already present on UNIX and if not it can easily be added by installing some packages. On Solaris, make sure a recent patch bundle is installed (including at least the February 2002 OpenGL patch). On Linux, it may be hard to get good hardware acceleration, in which case we recommend to switch to a graphical card based on an nVidia-chipset, for which there are excellent drivers obtainable from nVidia. Recently some ATI Radeon cards have appeared that perform extremely well. 

Full list of Hardware Requirements  

To be able to use the Madagascar plugin, you need to have a working installation. Madagascar versions can be obtained from the RSF sourceforge web site.

The Madagascar plugin does not (yet) work with Cygwin/Windows.