Date:         Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:49:22 -0800
Reply-To:     Andrew James Llwellyn Cary <ajlcary@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Andrew James Llwellyn Cary <ajlcary@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Organization: Cary Consulting Services
Subject:      Re: What happened at SUGI 21?

Paul OldenKamp wrote:
>
 
SNIP
 
  Perhaps somebody else did and
> could post the answer:
>
> 1.  How will licensing work when SAS is integrated with the Web? (I know
>     that nobody has the answer to this.)
>
> 2.  When will the SAS Institute allow its employees to participate
>     openly on the internet newsgroups?
 
Last I heard, the policy was in place to ensure that only 'offical' SAS voices
posted openly. I
get a couple of messages from little birdies (Carolina Warblers?) a year posted
to me personally by
SI staff in response to a posting. From a litigation perspective I doubt that
will change.
>
> 3.  Will the SAS Institute join the OLAP Council now that it has a MDDB?
 
Not to mention being DATAMATION's Data Warehousing product of the year...
 
>
> 4.  Will the SAS Institute develop a SAS/ACCESS type interface to ESSBASE
>     and other MDDB s? (The Tom Skinner honorary question)
>
> 5.  What is XPRINT?
 
It's usually the current experimental version of PROC PRINT. Sometimes it
becomes the next release of
PROC PRINT...
 
> 6.  When will SAS be able to function as an OCX server as well as a
>     client? (The Seth Grimes honorary question)
 
Version 6.11 TS040 due out RSN.
 
SNIP AGAIN
 
 
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