An interview with Chief Marketing Officer of SAS Institute, Jim Davis. Here is an extract-
http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/06/05/interview-jim-davis-sas-institute/ *Ajay -It is rare to find a major software company that has zero involvement with open source movement (or as I call it with peer-reviewed code). Could you name some of SAS Instituteâs contribution to open source? What could be further plans to enhance this position with the global community of scientists?* * Jim -* SAS does support open source and open standards too. Open standards typically guide open source implementations (e.g., the OASIS work is guiding some of the work in Eclipse Cosmos, some of the JCP standards guide the Tomcat implementation, etc.). Some examples of SASâs contributions to open source and open standards include: * Apache Software Foundation* â a senior SAS developer has been a committer on multiple releases of the Apache Tomcat project, and has also acted as Release Coordinator. *Eclipse Foundation* â SAS developers were among the early adopters of Eclipse. One senior SAS developer wrote a tutorial whitepaper on using Eclipse RCP, and was named âTop Ambassadorâ in the 2006 Eclipse Community Awards. Another is a committer on the Eclipse Web Tools project. A third proposed and led Eclipseâs Albireo project. SAS is a participant in the Eclipse Cosmos project, with three R&D employees as committers. Finally, SASâ Rich Main served on the board of directors of the Eclipse Foundation from 2003 to 2006, helping write the Eclipse Bylaws, Development Process, Membership Agreement, Intellectual Property Policy and Public License. *Java Community Process *â SAS has been a Java licensee partner since 1997 and has been active in the Java Community Process. SAS has participated in approximately 25 Java Specification Requests spanning both J2SE and J2EE technology. Rich Main of SAS also served on the JCP Executive Committee from 2005 through 2008. *OASIS* â A senior SAS developer serves as secretary of the OASIS Solution Deployment Descriptor (SDD) Technical Committee. In total, six SAS employees serve on this committee. *XML for Analysis* â SAS co-sponsored XML for Analysis standard with Microsoft and Hyperion. *Others *â A small SAS team developed Cobertura, an open source coverage analysis tool for Java. SAS (through our database access team) is one of the top corporate contributors to Firebird, an open source relational database. Another developer contributes to Slide WebDav. Weâve had people work on HtmlUnit (another testing framework) and FreeBSD. In addition, there are dozens if not hundreds of contributed bug reports, fixes/patches from SAS developers using open source software. SAS will continue to expand our work with and contribute to open-source tools and communities. For example, we know a number of our customers use R as well as SAS. So we decided to make it easier for them to access R by ..... http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/06/05/interview-jim-davis-sas-institute/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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