Hi, We participated in a SAS/zLinux beta almost three years ago but, as several others on the list indicated, SAS chose not to market their product line on the zLinux platform for market reasons. As a few people indicated, its important for SAS to be aware of your desires. The 2006 SASware ballot is closed but contact your SAS sales rep and/or vote next year.
In the meantime, we have begun a migration to SAS/AIX. We're using a combination of REXEC and VMNFS to remotely initate the request from VM and to allow AIX to access VM data. That would be easily convertible to SAS/Linux if available (and priced reasonably). The changes for our customers have been relatively minor so far; the biggest change is handing packed-decimal data, which would have been a problem migrating to any non-z platform. Dennis Schaffer Mutual of Omaha ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
