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Dear Lists, This is an off topic (OT ). I recently took Anne Milley's interview .In Part 1 of the interview , Anne talks about SAS, WPS, other softwares she studied like SPSS,.She also talks about the difference between small and big companies , what sets SAS apart and the famous licensing model of SAS Interview – Anne Milley, SAS Part 1<http://smartdatac...

Hi List, This is a slightly non technical ,hence OT topic. Here is an Interview with Anne Milley of the SAS Institute. Anne Milley is director of product marketing, SAS Institute . In part 2 of the interview Anne talks of immigration in technology areas, open source networks ,how she misses coding ,and software as a service especially SAS Institute’s offering . She also reveals some preview...

...confirmed to this blog that they have invested in the R ?Core project to help build next generation algorithms . Details are sketchy but indications of some shift on cloud hosted SAS ,called SaaS are emerging.Also includes some details on Jim Davis ,SVP SAS marketing's statement on BI and Anne Milley having a new assignment within SAS Institute. Read more here - http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/04/sas-institute-invests-in-r-project/

...at universities, despite educational discounts on its own software, but it dismisses the technology as being of interest to a limited set of people working on very hard tasks. ?I think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code," said Anne H. Milley, director of technology product marketing at SAS. She adds, ?We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.? But while SAS plays down R?s corporate appeal, companies like Google and Pfizer say they use the software for just about anyth...

...siderable) limitations of the three classical statistical programming languages ( S, SAS, SPSS) , R really doesn't change anything at all. I definitely like the pricetag though. And that does not mean that R cannot achieve a quality and reliability comparable to S-Plus and SAS, not withstanding Milley's snide comment. But if you want to attack the chronic and painful productivity problems with data preparation and statistical table production, you need to go beyond R and SAS. You have to develop new user interfaces, and that is very risky, and takes years of technical work and marketing. An...

dear r-experts: I need to speed up my monte-carlo simulations. my code is written in R (and it was also the cause of my many questions here over the last few days). my code is almost all matrix/vector algebra on panel data sets---long-difference, fixed-effects, blundell-bond, etc.. the data set is about 10MB, so 1GB per CPU core should be plenty for my operations, and with $10/GB of

...iversities, despite educational discounts on its own software, but it dismisses the technology as being of interest to a limited set of people working on very hard tasks. "I think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that want free, readily available code," said Anne H. Milley, director of technology product marketing at SAS. She adds, "We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet." But while SAS plays down R's corporate appeal, companies like Google and Pfizer say they use the software for ju...

...;762dbc5f-58ee-4a0c-8a88-c0baccfc00fa@d36g2000prf.googlegroups.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > ?We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are > not using freeware when I get on a jet.? > > The lady who made this comment, Anne H. Milley, director of technology > product marketing at SAS, has written a response to try and clarify > what she meant (funilly enough, i got this link from a SAS mate of > mine who is now going to have a look into R for the first time): > > > http://blogs.sas.com/sascom/index.php?/archiv...