SAS

[stek]

They teach it at Uni along with Excel & Word. It's even on my CV.

Ahh, so it's like Office!

We're running it on AIX with GPFS and DB2, that's the hard part!

[MarillionFan]

Ahh, so it's like Office!

We're running it on AIX with GPFS and DB2, that's the hard part!

Nah. Minitab.

[Freamon]

Just looking as SAS rates on JS, don't seem very high at all....

The trouble is you tend to find the types of people who work in the field are uncommunicative anti-social techies who have no knowledge of the business concepts that they are trying to model. Some of them are more sociable - they look at your shoes while they're talking to you, instead of their own.

The expensive ones are the (relatively rare) ones who can actually understand the business as well as the tool.

Someone who calls themself a "SAS guru" is more likely to fall into the former category.

[portseven]

We're running it on AIX with GPFS and DB2, that's the hard part!

I did something similar, was architect on a project that built a SAS Grid on AIX with the SAS SPDS server and GPFS & XIV storage. Goes like tulip off a stick

[OwlHoot]

I heard SAS (the thing not the person, well maybe him too) had moreorless fallen by the wayside.

It is just too complex and baroque these days. So people are moving to simpler systems.

It's as if every software system goes through an evolution, like a tree in the forest - Starts out lean and mean, shoots up, but then spreads out becomes gnarly, and eventually attracts ivy and fungus, before eventually becoming waterlogged and rotten, and finally crashing to Earth one day to make room for a new tree. And SAS I gather is in the ivyclad, fungus ridden, waterlogged and rotten stage.

[AtW]

SAP is the future, that and .NET.

HTH

[Freamon]

SAP is the future

[portseven]

All the cool kids are doing hadoop and r anyway

[MrMark]

He is not that kind of guru.

Back in the day he was member of a Special Air Service unit fighting deep behind enemy territory in Soviet Siberia. He is the only one who made it out.

Huh? I thought he was part of a crack team that was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit...

[NickFitz]

Ahh, so it's like Office!

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