On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Ryan Coleman wrote: > The questions is this: WTH is SAS? It's not Serial attached SCSI. Ha! I was forgotting about the other SAS(es) while writing that. I think it's also a Swedish airline. The one I had in mind was Statistical Analysis Software: http://www.sas.com/company/about/ You will probably find this interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sas-warms-to-open-source-one-letter-at-a-time/ One nice thing about SAS is that they have always treated their employees extremely well. It was a great place for developers to work: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/18/60minutes/main550102.shtml Mike