Date:         Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:58:34 +0800
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From:         "Yuntao_Dou (BJ)" <Yuntao_Dou@SMICS.COM>
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Wensui, I can not agree with u any more.
The situation is much more similar in computational biology field when I was graduate.

At that time, Glimmer is the best gene prediction software for bacterial genome invented by NIH.
Then our group invented a software name "Zcurve" which is better then Glimmer.

As far as I know, Zcurve is the open source software.
Anyway, SAS will face more and more competition as R grows so fast



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发件人: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU]代表 Wensui Liu
发送时间: 2008年3月20日 9:51
收件人: SAS-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU
主题: competition from open source


I noticed that in sugi survey this year, sas asked questions about
open source software. it seems they start realizing the competition
from open source software such as R or python. As I talked to a R&D
guy in stat, he told me that he often uses result from R to compare
with the one from SAS.


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