David writes: > > Does anyone have any experience with WPS on zLinux as an alternative to > > SAS? > > Depends on what you want to do. If all you use SAS for is report generation > and various small amounts of data munging, then it's probably maybe OK. If > you use any of the analytics functions of SAS, it's not even close. > > WPS is a decent report writer. It's not SAS.
The best known open source stat package is R. http://www.r-project.org/ "R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, ..." I'm not sure about it running on zLinux - but it very well may, although a web search doesn't show any descriptions of doing it. -- --henry schaffer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
