On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:06:21 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:36:31 -0500
> "Alan Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> |
> | I'm a data analysis junkie - what sort of things do you want to do? Linear
> | regression? I normally use SAS for the heavy lifting, but that's not cheap.
> | I'll look in my bookmarks at work, I may have something.
>
> Have you used SAS on Linux? Last I looked it was comming out. We moved a client
> from an HP-UX version to the NT version. I would love to move them to the Linux
> version they should have used 'all along'.
>
> But, as you said, SAS ain't cheap. For dedicated work is pays. But as an
> occasional tool it cannot be used. Not with a steep yearly fee.
We run it on Sun - we haven't gotten across the "Linux as a desktop" hurdle
yet, but soon.... I'm buying hardware this week and one guy told me "just
give me a good Linux box, it will be a lot cheaper than a Sparc". Maybe
we'll do it, if we can sneak it past the powers that be.
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