Date:         Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:05:44 -0700
Reply-To:     Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
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From:         Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
Subject:      Re: numbers "that look like" characters in Excel to SAS
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We can debate it over a beer sometime. All is good ;-]

Alan

Alan Churchill
Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies"
www.savian.net



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ben.powell@CLA.CO.UK
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:37 AM
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Subject: Re: numbers "that look like" characters in Excel to SAS

Alan, my innate skepticism of monopolies prevents me from buying into any
microsoft panegyric, so we must agree to disagree. Which is not to say
Excel is not a great product: it is still a monopoly product.

Equally, which came first the great product or the monopoly? The answer is,
of course, the *other* monopoly: the OS ;-)