On 1/27/06, Dennis Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > isn't SAS/Linux on Intel available anymore? I remeber, if my memory is not failing me, getting a quote from the SAS Institute some 2 or 3 years ago for about $6k.
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