On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 13:52 -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: > Reading the posts on SAS-L since yesterday via Google RSS, where the > NYT > article was also posted, some have noted that SAS itself offers online > support forums (http://support.sas.com/forums/index.jspa). From a > quick > review, it looks like the SAS.com forums date back to perhaps early > 2006, thus possibly accounting for some of the leveling of the posts > on > SAS-L recently.
Hello, Not only that: the corporate intranet of SAS (sections of which are sometime open for external consultants for certain products) also contain forums with an uneven traffic flow. These will certainly absorb part of the traffic that would otherwise hit lists like SAS-L. In fact, in my five years experience working (also as) a SAS consultant, I have never posted to SAS-L. However, I have posted (or had my requests posted by other SAS employees) on these lists. Having said that, I should also add that R represents a threat to SAS (which does not stand for Statistical Analysis System for a long time already) in a business segment that very doubtfully accounts for more than 5-10% of their revenue. They have to sell about 1000 licenses of SAS/BASE and SAS/STAT in order to match the annual revenues from a single license for a single "solution" in a single top tier bank. It is quite amusing, though, to browse SAS marketing internal documentation --to which I had access some time ago-- on "how to compete" against R. The SAS salesperson statement in the article seems to have been extracted verbatim from them. Best regards, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta http://www.datanalytics.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
