No worries. Bear in mind that WPS have a aggressive business strategy to
undercut SAS on the price point, which is always welcome for customers.
AFAIK, WPC are ex-IBMers from Hursley who saw a opportunity to deliver a
competitive product at a much lower price. From what I can tell it's a
C/C++ application which should port well to zLinux.
FWIW, I tried to port R to z/OS but bailed when it required a Fortran
compiler. Has Fortran been ported to zLinux or is that a moot point due
to the
the loosely coupled front-end - backend (optimizer) architecture of the
GCC compiler tool chain?
On 30/03/2012 11:16 PM, Aria Bamdad wrote:
Thanks for this link. I was not aware of WPS. We will seriously take a
look at this product.
Although R is an excellent alternative as David Boyes suggested, it is so
only from a statistical analysis point of view. When it comes to data
management and manipulation, it is not really a good alternative to SAS.
Perhaps the availability of WPS for Linux on System z will be a motivation
for SAS to provide the same offering.
Aria
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David
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Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:19 PM
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Subject: Re: SAS
On 30/03/2012 4:44 AM, Neale Ferguson wrote:
Just curious - is there such thing SAS under Linux on z? My reading shows
only x86, x86_64 and Itanium as options.
WPC have a SAS clone (WPS) that runs on zLinuz. WPS is very well
regarded - in fact, MXG creator Barry Merrill endorses it.
http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps/platforms/zlinux
Neale
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