Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 09:24:15 -0600 (CST)
From: Tim Buller <buller@math.ukans.edu>
To: lwn@eklektix.com
Subject: SAS

Below follows a part of a message a colleague of mine posted to a campus
Admin mailing list regarding the port of SAS to Linux, something which I
and many others have been pushing the SAS institute to do for some time.
Feel free to use it if you're interested...

	Tim

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Tim Buller                                       buller@math.ukans.edu
Systems Specialist                       Snow Hall 643, (785) 864-7311
Department of Mathematics     University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045

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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 08:57:00 -0600

I had an interesting conversation last week with an executive at SAS
Institute. They are getting a lot of suggestions to port their software to
Linux. This would probably be a relatively easy port - they already run on
several UNIX platforms.  Still, quality assurance (testing) would cost
them more than a million.  They spent several millions porting SAS to the
Mac and then promoting it, and then had very disappointing sales. So for
SAS - no Linux and no future development for the Mac.