Date:         Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:32:31 -0800
Reply-To:     Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV
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From:         "David L. Cassell" <Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Oracle vs. SAS tools
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Chris Smith <cpsmith@VECTREN.COM> wrote:
> A consultant working for my company said to me..."Not too many people
using
> SAS anymore...everyone uses Oracle now."
>
> What did he mean?
> . . . . .

Well, sometimes that means "I know Oracle.  I don't know SAS.  I only
recommend stuff which will get me business."  :-)

Oracle does do more business than SAS.  So does Microsoft, but that
doesn't
mean "Not too many people using SAS anymore...everyone uses MS now."
I'm sure
there are areas where Oracle is making inroads.. but there may be places
where the reverse is true.  In my little cornfield, we have junked
Oracle
completely, and we do the database management in SAS now.  But we don't
have
a need for real-time transaction-processing.  I'm sure others have
junked SAS
and just write Oracle programs to generate their descriptive statistics.

David
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David Cassell, CSC
Cassell.David@epa.gov
Senior computing specialist
mathematical statistician