On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:06:06 -0700, RolandRB <rolandberry@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>How many pharmaceutical sas sites are there? Roughly, that is. 100, >500, 1000?

hi,

Interesting question. Let's see.

1. it is definitely less than 44,000 since si says that it has 44,000 customer sites world wide (http://sas.com/)

2. it is over 19 for sure because that is the number of fortune 500 pharma companies in 2006.(http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/industries/Pharmaceuticals/1.html) and si says sas is the "the choice of 100 percent of the Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies" (http://sas.com/industry/pharma/develop/)

3. so it is somewhere between 19 and 44K for sure. Now for guessing part. si lists 16 industries in home page (http://sas.com/) so 1/16th of the 44K or 2,750 may fall into each one. assuming those sites are under "life science" industry and I think 2,750 may be the best guess, given limited information.

cheers, chang