Date:         Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:34:26 -0500
Reply-To:     "F. Joseph Kelley" <jkelley@ARCHES.UGA.EDU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "F. Joseph Kelley" <jkelley@ARCHES.UGA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: How many would buy SAS for linux?
Comments: To: Phil Mason <phil_mason@EMAIL.COM>
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If there were a "SAS for Linux", we would want it here at UGA.  I have
been following Karsten Self's posts on this and am somewhat (not entirely,
just somewhat) surprised at SIs reluctance to enter this area.  Although I
have a desktop machine running Linux, I would imagine it would be popular
as a server in many commercial establishments, so I don't think the "sheer
terror" aspect of a shell prompt is really true (fwiw, there also seems
to be a lot of sheer terror at the sight of READY).  Anyway, I think it
would work, and I wouldn't care whether it were open or not (another fwiw,
SAS used to be distributed with the source - then someone used that to
-essentially- produce s "SAS for the VAX", only it wasn't SI.  There was a
big case over it and SI stopped sending source).   --Joe Kelley