On Mar 27, 4:58 pm, savian...@GMAIL.COM (Alan Churchill) wrote: > BTW, I posted on my blog how I wish SAS would open up their system a bit > more and just bundle in products like SAS Integration Technologies into > Base. We live a web-centric world and having to license SAS separately for > the web does not make a lot of sense to me. Perhaps an exception can be made > between internet and intranet to handle the complexity. > > Anyway, I have no impact on that discussion but I do think it is time for > SAS to reevaluate their license terms. Especially with SAS supporting web > service creation and consumption in SAS 9.2. It will be interesting to have > a web service consumption in Base with no license issues yet you can't > expose web services unless Int Tech is licensed. Just bundle it in and > charge a higher price. IntrNet as well. > > Alan > > Alan Churchill > Savianwww.savian.net > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan > > Churchill > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:31 AM > To: SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Re: Web form for SAS job submission without IntrNet > > A birdie has confirmed what I already knew. You must have either SAS IntrNet > or SAS Integration Technologies licensed in order to web-enable SAS. Even if > you do not use the product, a license is required. > > Alan > > Alan Churchill > Savianwww.savian.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of > doug_zir...@HOTMAIL.COM > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:34 AM > To: SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Re: Web form for SAS job submission without IntrNet > > On Mar 26, 8:09 pm, savian...@GMAIL.COM (Alan Churchill) wrote: > > Easy to solve but you may have a license issue. I would concern myself > with > > that first. > > > Is SAS on a server or local? If on a server, with a web submission form, > > there are likely license issues that you have to deal with. I can easily > > place a web form out that submits to SAS using SAS IntrNet, Integration > > Technologies, or other. > > > Explain a bit more what you are trying to do. > > > Alan > > > Alan Churchill > > Savianwww.savian.net > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of > > > doug_zir...@HOTMAIL.COM > > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:59 PM > > To: SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > > Subject: Web form for SAS job submission without IntrNet > > > Who has a simple solution to a simple problem: A Windows-based web > > form that passes parameters to a batch SAS program (or an ini file > > that it reads), then executes SAS? It would be great to be able to > > return the log and lst files back to the web, but not critical. Many > > companies are willing to pay for Base SAS licenses but not IntrNet or > > AppDev Studio, so these products have never been an option for me.- Hide > quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Our aim is to provide a web interface so that less-technical users can > submit batch SAS jobs on a Unix server, where we have the SAS > license. We don't have IntrNet licensed, but there must be a way > using Perl or something. But I'm a SAS guy, not (yet) a web guy.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -

Thank you all -- Alan, Don, Phil, Richard, Ajay -- for your thoughtful replies. I will have to check with our SAS sales rep, although it would seem to run counter to good marketing sense. Persuading management to buy new software for $1000s (especially from SAS) is usually unsuccessful.