SAS

[sasguru]

No wonder I earn a six figure salary. There's no competition

[MarillionFan]

No wonder I earn a six figure salary. There's no competition

Invoice Shirley?

(Oh know you were right the first time)

[AtW]

No wonder I earn a six figure salary. There's no competition

Yes but you get paid in Turkish Liras

[Freamon]

No wonder I earn a six figure salary. There's no competition

£9999.99 per year.

[MarillionFan]

£9999.99 per year.

What I love is, that Sas is boasting about being employed. Ah. Bless. Employed. Ah. How 1980s.

[AtW]

The keyword is "earn" - can you think of sasguru actually earning his keep? I know I can't

[realityhack]

It is just too complex and baroque these days.

An old IT manager of mine once said "Nobody ever got fired for implementing Oracle or SAP". This analogy can extend to SAS, and a whole load more.
After one too many attempts to make the shoe fit, I realised it's more profitable (in certain circumstances) to help them modify the shape of their foot.

May 2012 be a profitable year for you all.

[sasguru]

For the manipulation, analysis and statistical modelling of large volumes of data SAS is the defacto standard in pharma, insurance, banking, and has no real competitors.
It's not really a developer's tool unless you're at the bottom end of the food chain.
Most posts on this thread only managed to reveal an unsurpassed depth of ignorance about what SAS is and what it's good for, which is good news: like I said there's very little competition because very few developers have mathematical skills and vice versa.

[sasguru]

What I love is, that Sas is boasting about being employed. Ah. Bless. Employed. Ah. How 1980s.

I suspect that in a year or two's time after the Euro has imploded, being employed will be quite an achievement.

[Freamon]

For the manipulation, analysis and statistical modelling of large volumes of data SAS is the defacto standard in pharma, insurance, banking, and has no real competitors.

Not true at all. There are in fact lots of competitors, some of which are equal in capability, lower in licensing cost, better in terms of maintainability AND are cheaper to find skills for in the marketplace. There isn't much of a shortage of SAS developers (although there IS a shortage of ones who are also capable of having sensible conversations with the business without offending them with their arrogance!).

The other problem with SAS people is that they tend to suffer from Hammer-Nail syndrome.