Hello Mike,

How would this come to have affect on SAS with SPSS and WPS in IBM support.SAS might feel the heat ? Is this time SAS has to worry about reducing the pricing ??

SL

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Mike Zdeb <msz03@albany.edu> wrote:

> hi ... fyi ... > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072800858.html > > Monster Merger: IBM Buys SPSS For Approx. $1.2 Billion In Cash Deal > > IBM is buying analytics software and solutions provider SPSS in an all cash > transaction at a price of $50/share - > a 42 percent premium to Monday's closing price of $35.09 on Nasdaq - > resulting in a total cash consideration > in the merger of approximately $1.2 billion. The acquisition is subject to > SPSS shareholder approval, > regulatory clearances and other closing conditions, and is expected to > close later in the second half of 2009. > > and ... > > http://www.spss.com/jackmessage.htm > > -- > Mike Zdeb > U@Albany School of Public Health > One University Place > Rensselaer, New York 12144-3456 > P/518-402-6479 F/630-604-1475 >