On 12/2/05, Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:40, McKown, John wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > > Behalf Of Waite, Dick > > > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 2:49 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: SAS for Linux on S/390 > > > > > > > > > Grand Day > > > > > > If your looking for a compiler and assembler that runs on z/VM, > > > z/OS, zLinux, LinTel and WinTel and is 99% compatible with > > > SAS then try > > > the link below. I have been using Dignus for many years now and before > > > that SAS/C, I'm happy with Dignus, give it a try maybe you will be > > > too... > > > > Ah, Dick. Dignus does not produce a SAS language replacement. It does > > have a very fine replacement for IBM's and SAS's C compiler and IBM's > > HLASM. But that is not the product under discussion. SAS Institute was > > founded upon the SAS language. This is a very powerful data language > > (which I think is so tightly copyrighted/patented/???? that even trying > > to make a similar language will result in a lawsuit) with associated > > "procedures". IIRC, SAS originally targetted this for statistics and > > stood for Statistical Analysis System (but that was long, long ago, in a > > galaxy far, far way) > > Actually, they'd probably lose any such case. The basic information is so > widely spread on very many mainframe-using Universities' websites that I > suspect any judge would consider that their stake in it had been diluted so > badly that such claims were risible. And ask them to sort it out quietly > amongst themselves instead of wasting his time. > > I think the reason they may _not_ have been cloned, was that people got and > made other statistical tools and languages for computers - the GNU R language > springs to mind; a written-from-specs clone plus improvements of the S > statistical language. (Heck, I think there were even statistics programs > written for CP/M and MP/M!) > > And so you're likely to find most of your statistics tools and languages > already in Debian, say, or SLES, already there. > > Wesley Parish > > > > -- > > John McKown > > Senior Systems Programmer > > UICI Insurance Center > > Information Technology > > > > This message (including any attachments) contains confidential > > information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' > > content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you > > should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, > > copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action > > based on it, is strictly prohibited. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > -- > Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish > ----- > Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? > You ask, what is the most important thing? > Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. > I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > Thank you so much. I have met with SAS on this issue. We are a VERY significant account for them and yet they have not taken any action. I will be interested in finding out more about the unsupported version. We are still going to keep our zOS SAS license but must add SAS to Linux for z-Series so we can port some applications we have under AIX.
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