If they are embracing x86 servers it seems to be a bad move. Isn't IBM trying to sell their x86 business? (to Lenovo) Mainly because the sales are dropping.
________________________________ From: Ed Gould <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2013 3:06 AM Subject: SAS Deserting the MF? SAS Makes Triple Play SAS unleashed three major announcements at its Global Forum in San Francisco this week, with a wave of new SAS High-Performance Analytics capabilities, a newly unified SAS Customer Experience marketing suite, and new levels of support for public and private cloud deployment of SAS software. SAS High-Performance Analytics software is designed to take advantage of highly distributed, massively parallel processing (MPP) on memory- intensive X86 servers. It has been a big strategic push for SAS over the last two years, as customers demand ever-faster performance. SAS previously offered High-Performance versions of industry specific applications, such as financial risk analysis and marketing optimization. But with the SAS High-Performance Analytics upgrades announced this week and set for release in June, SAS will bring MPP power to six core products in its portfolio: Statistics, Data Mining, Text Mining, Optimization, Econometrics, and Forecasting. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS http://www.informationweek.com/software/business-intelligence/sas- makes-triple-play/240153951?pgno=2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
