Date:         Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:23:36 -0400
Reply-To:     "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: License question SAS/SHARE and SAS/ACCESS vs. SAS/IntrNet

Kent Lewandowski wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Thanks for the tip.  I agree with your "principle of conservation of
> annoyances".  The savings from dropping SAS /ACCESS would not be very
> good.
>
> What I am more interested in, is how much do you think we would save
> by dropping SAS/IntrNet?

I don't know.  It's more a question of
- per Base licensing what modalities of SAS output delivery or SAS
processing accesses via web services are legal.
    - search the archives for prior threads.
- For modalities not legal without SAS/Intrnet, are there alternative
technologies to accomplish same or near-same
    - what is the cost of the work around ?
    - at one point in the past there was something called Onyx (David Ward),
but I think that has gone poof.

If you can identify what parts of your processes or planned processes will
or might use which components of SAS/Intrnet, then you can get a much better
idea of how critical it is to have (or not)

> Don't get me wrong- I like SAS 8.2 - but I'm only asking cause we need
> to make some budget decisions.  Having our SAS rep. come down here and
> get in negotiations before we know what options are available is not
> going to help us either.

Granted a rep might not be uber-diligent in helping find a way to not use a
SAS product, but they certainly should be able to discuss the benefits at
length.

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Richard A. DeVenezia