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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:20:00 CDT
- Reply-To: Deb Cannon 319-335-6321 <ADPDKHTS@UIAMVS.BITNET>
- Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Deb Cannon 319-335-6321 <ADPDKHTS@UIAMVS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: SAS Futures / IBM's Book Manager
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- >
- > Online manual access is CLEARLY the progressive thing to do, however I
- > suspect it may cut into a company's manual-sales revenues. Remember the
- > perhaps apocryphal Kodak annecdote: "Give the cameras away; we'll make
- > our money on the film." Selling documentation is, I suspect, a major
- > source of revenue for SAS Institute, like many other companies.
-
- That'd certainly be interesting to find out! I don't see how
- the trend could be stopped - paper will get more and more
- expensive, prices will be driven up so high sales will decrease,
- if not that, SAS's much-protected reputation as being as
- leading information-delivery system will start to falter
- if they insist on paper when everyone else in the industry has gone
- online (granted this will take a 'few' years.....).
- >
- > One final thought: remember that online manual access isn't wholly
- > practical unless you have a high resolution workstation-quality interface
- > ... or you're willing to sacrafice all illustrations and most page
- > formatting.
- >
- Book Manager for MVS can handle graphic illustrations, provided
- you have a graphics terminal. Don't know about other platforms.
-
- an-old-poop-in-training,
- Deb
-
- p.s:
- LEICESTER: WOULDYA CUT IT OUT?
-