In comp.os.linux.development.apps Scot A. Richardson <cma-mkt@interaccess.com> wrote: : Stephen Costaras wrote: : > : > Jeffrey Lessem (lessem@Colorado.EDU) wrote: : > : This topic has been raised before on comp.soft-sys.sas, can I run : > : parts of the SAS System on an Intel based Linux machine? By the SAS : > : System I mean the base system and stat package, so I will not be : > : needing to access any external data base to complicate things. : > : > I am also interested in running SAS under Linux. If it actually : > is possible I would definatly put an order in for unix license : > for it.

: You know, I'm not too sure why there is an interest in running SAS on a : LINUX host. Not to start a flame war, OS war, Chip war, etc, but in my : experience, if you want to run in a production level UNIX environment, : you just need to bite the bullet... shell out the bucks, and pick up a : _real_ UNIX box. [snip]

Well, some people care about performance. And Oracle for SCO is reportedly running MUCH faster on Linux. I guess this is true for SAS too.

and if you dont care about performance .. then you do something wrong :)

-- mingo