Re: Development tool recommendations sought

In article <41j1fq$2fg@barnacle.iol.ie> laidback@iol.ie (Dave Murphy) writes: >hp <tic.ab.ca> wrote: > >>>the original problem seems like a SAS kind of problem. > >>the information out of the USA for nothing', but what is SAS. I have been >Scandinavian Airline Systems (also SpecialAir Services) Just a joke i No, SAS = Statistics Analysis System IMHO, the best of the big stats s/ware packages you can get. There's practically no analysis you can't do with this, and it has interfaces to most of the unix databases as well. My wife just bought it so we can run it against Informix to analyse test result data by all sorts of crosstab-type things. Last address I have handy is SAS Institute Inc Box 8000 Cary, North Carolina 27511-8000 Peter Wiley (tried to email this, but the address bounced.)