I've probably been away from SAS for too long... we've recently tried to get SAS on our 64-bit Linux boxes (because SAS on PC is not sufficient for some of my colleagues who need it). I was shocked by the quote for our 28-core Scyld cluster--- the annual fee was a few times the total cost of our hardware. We ended up buying a new quad 3GHz Opterons box with 32GB ram just so that the fee for SAS on such a box would be more tolerable. It just boggles my mind that the right to use SAS for a year is about the price of a nice four-bedroom house (near SAS Institute!). I don't understand people who rather pay that kind of price for the software, instead of spending the money on state-of-the-art hardware and save more than a bundle.
Just my $0.02... Andy From: Jorge Cornejo-Donoso > > I have a Dell with 2 Intel XEON 3.0 procesors and 2GB of ram.... > The problem is the DB size. > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: Lunes, 09 de Abril de 2007 11:28 > Para: Jorge Cornejo-Donoso > CC: [email protected] > Asunto: Re: [R] Reasons to Use R > > Have you tried 64 bit machines with larger memory or do you > mean that you can't use R on your current machines? > > Also have you tried S-Plus? Will that work for you? The > transition from that to R would be less than from SAS to R. > > On 4/9/07, Jorge Cornejo-Donoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tha s9ze of db is an issue with R. We are still using SAS because R > > can't handle own db, and of couse we don't want to sacrify > resolution, > > because the data collection is expensive (at least in fisheries and > > oceagraphy), so.. I think that R need to improve the use of big DBs. > > Now I only can use R for graph preparation and some data > analisis, but > > we can't do the main work on R, abd that is really sad. > > > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
