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- Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
- Date: Friday, 20 Nov 1992 09:06:10 EST
- From: Andrew A. Beveridge <ANDQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92325.090610ANDQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l
- Subject: Re: Window License Fee Schedule and SPSS for Windows (The Worm Has Tur
- References: <921113.112129.MST.ISSGXW@VM.BYU.EDU>
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- Dear SAS-L:
-
- I remember a few years ago when SAS PC came out SAS was going to run the same
- way on every platform, and the notion was the eventually there would be some
- cross-platform licensing approach. SPSS at that time had different versions on
- the PC and mainframe.
-
- Now the Worm has turned. SPSS for windows is a complete port to the PC, and
- SAS PC is a crippled version of mainframe SAS. Furthermore, upgrading the PC
- version is frightfully expensive, while SPSS is getting very aggressive in term
- s of marketting.
-
- I think it would be instructive to find out what portions of SAS were really us
- ed by most people on SAS/ List. Because I think things are now completely out
- of hand.
-
- To move files from a VM mainframe to a LAN over FTP, I could not find out how
- to do it in the $525 worth of SAS manuals I had purchased. Rather, I had to po
- st a query here.
-
- My own guess is that SAS will not really catch on in the new distributed enviro
- nment, because it is just too complicated.
-
- People will not abandon LOTUS for FSCALC, Wordperfect for FSLETTER, Paradox, et
- c. for PROC SQL, a real GIS for SAS/Graph or SAS/GIS. But if we buy SAS we get
- to pay for these "improvements."
-
- Will SI do anything about this? Now we can chose between to sets of manuals,
- neither of which is complete or simple.
-
- I know we are moving more and more to real micro based systems, and high end
- Fortran VS stuff. SAS maybe soup to nuts, but one has a hard time ordering the
- right dish.
-
- A few years ago IBM was riding high!
-
- Andy Beveridge
-