Dave,

Perhaps the SAS message is: Don't try it at home. Given the price (of SAS), I concur. On the other hand, if one has decided to run SAS on a home PC for any reasonable purpose and pay, say, $5000 a year, does the difference between XP Home ($200) and XP Pro ($280) make any palpable difference to speak of? The "pimple on the elephant's butt" allegory readily comes to mind... In fact, given the bang-for-the-buck difference between Home and Pro, even if I could not care less about SAS and/or knew nothing about it, the thought of XP Home would never enter my mind.

Now if only SAS V9 were available on Mac OS X natively without the need to run it through the goofy Virtual PC emulator...

Kind regards, ---------------- Paul M. Dorfman Jacksonville, FL ----------------

> -----Original Message----- > From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On > Behalf Of David Fickbohm > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 9:08 PM > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: FW: Does SAS 9 run on XP Home Edition > > People, > This is the response I got from SAS. It does seem strange > that they would ignore some many home PCs. > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Lantzy [mailto:Jerry.Lantzy@sas.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:57 PM > To: Cindy Welch; DavidF@homegain.com > Subject: RE: Does SAS 9 run on XP Home Edition > > > Thanks Cindy. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cindy Welch > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:22 AM > To: DavidF@homegain.com > Cc: Jerry Lantzy > Subject: FW: Does SAS 9 run on XP Home Edition > > David, > SAS 9 is not supported on Microsoft Windows XP Home but is > supported on Microsoft Windows XP professional operating > system. Please let me know if you have any other questions. > > Thanks, > > Cindy > > > Cindy Welch > Account Executive > SAS Americas > Direct: 919-531-5015 > Fax: 919-677-4444 > Cindy.Welch@sas.com > SAS... The Power to Know > www.sas.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Fickbohm [mailto:DavidF@homegain.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 5:27 PM > To: Jerry Lantzy > Subject: Does SAS 9 run on XP Home Edition > > Jerry, > Do you know? > > Thanks > Dave > > Dave Fickbohm > Data Mining Analyst > Homegain+ > 2450 45th St. > Emeryville, CA, 94608 > Phone 510 655 0800 ext 4151 >