Date:         Fri, 31 May 1996 10:53:35 EST
Reply-To:     Jerry Dallal <jerry@MINT.HNRC.TUFTS.EDU>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jerry Dallal <jerry@MINT.HNRC.TUFTS.EDU>
Organization: Tufts University
Subject:      Re: spss alternatives?

In article <4om2f6$4ha@loki.tor.hookup.net>, stubie <stewart@hookup.net>
writes:
> Whenever I mention that our company uses SPSS for its market research
> analytics, I always get a grimace, and an answer like "Why?", its awful.
> Are there other , more powerful or friendlier packages? I personally like
> using SPSS, but I'm starting to get worried that we should be using
> something else?
 
Just out of curiosity, do you have any sense of why you get a grimace?
Any sense of what package would not elicit a grimace?
 
I'd ask the same questions if, in your post, SPSS had been replaced by
SAS, SYSTAT, S-Plus, Stata, or any other solid package starting with S.
They all have their particular strengths and weaknesses, but none
clearly dominates the others (with the exception of SAS's DATA step).