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From: mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
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Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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Date: 18 Dec 89 04:50:17 GMT
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In article <6772@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
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>Systat is pretty bad (although it is pretty expensive). The magic words
>are SAS and S, furthermore Matlab, Gauss and (for small applications)
>Minitab and (for TS) SCA. I guess everyone can insert his own favorites
>after the "furthermore." S is available by now. True, full-blown SAS
>is under development for the NeXT.

Reality check: 
SAS has a product called JMP that is out for the MAC that is very
nice.  It is not SAS it is a fully interactive and graphical stats
package.  I have spoken with SAS employees (not just salesbeings) and
the concensus is that a straight port of SAS wouldnt sell on the MAC.
They are appearantly moving SAS towards a more modern software architecture
where it will work nicely on graphics "workstations". In the future.

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