shareware/cheapware for survival analysis

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I need some free/cheap software for data analysis with a very large data sets
(~500,000 observations).  I need to be able to merge two such large files.  I
will be using correlations, regression and survival analysis.  If possible I
may also play with some neural networks.  

Any advice where I can look to find something like this?  


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