Date:         Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:23:15 -0600
Reply-To:     Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jack Hamilton <JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM>
Subject:      Re: v9.2 projected release date
Comments: To: quentin_mcmullen@BROWN.EDU
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Are you sure that that "nominal fee" goes to SAS Institute and not your
IS department slush fund?

I assume it's not a nominal fee of $1, or you wouldn't be worrying
about it.




--
JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
Manager, Technical Development
Metrics Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA

>>> "Quentin McMullen" <quentin_mcmullen@BROWN.EDU> 04/29/2004 12:30 PM
>>>
sigh...

Is there an official estimate for a release date of 9.2 on sas.com?
Unofficial rumors?

Version 9.1 has apparently arrived at my fine university.

However, I'm still learning the oddities of educational contracts with
SAS.

The master CDs are here (somewhere).  But my *department* needs to pay
a
(nominal) fee for each person upgrading to 9.1.  (So it aint like most
companies, where you have an annual license fee that includes 'free'
upgrades).

So now that the CDs are at the university, the people in my department
are
wondering, "should we pay nominal_fee*10 SASprogrammers to upgrade to
9.1
if that means we will again have to pay nominal_fee*10 again in the
fall
to get to 9.2?"

Of course, I'm holding my breath waiting for 9.1, so I'm hoping I can
tell
them (honestly :) "we won't be seeing 9.2 any time soon, so let's go
ahead
and get 9.1."

Thanks for any info,
--Quentin