I can see why SAS would want to sell to the Windows market. There are how
many PCs in the world that run Windows. Several hundred million? Compare
that to what - 10,000 possible mainframes to sell to. Bill Gates got to be
the richest man on earth putting
Windows on every one of those Windows computers, and he only charges around
$100 per copy - at least for home use computers.
Eric
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
Washington University
314-935-3418
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From: "R.S." <[email protected]>
I understand pricing (dis)advantages, which causes that it is cheaper to
use SAS on Intel than on z/OS, or run several "Linux+Oracle" images on IFL
than on several Intel machines.
However I'm curious - WHY ???
Why does SAS Institute allow for "cannibal" competition? Is it good for
them to lose z/OS customer just to get new "Windows" license?
Are they interested in shrinking z/OS market?
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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