Hello Everyone,

Many of you might not realize is that there is an internal email list, like the apple-list, but for University computer support personnel. ACN (Academic Computing and Networking) recently submitted a request for input to that email list.

ACN is looking into the possibility of recovering budgetary dollars by terminating unnecessary software licences, of which SAS for the Macintosh is a potential candidate. To that end, they are asking Macintosh users to respond to the following questions: 1.) Are there any users of SAS for the Macintosh on campus? 2.) Are the University's SAS users being served via the Windows, Unix and Linux versions instead?

And I'll add three more questions, 3.) Were you even aware that there was a SAS licence for Macintosh systems on campus? 4.) Do you know with whom you need to speak regarding software licences held by the University, or do you know which webpage lists the existing software licences held by the University? 5.) If you aren't using SAS for your statistical analyses, which software application(s) are you using?

I would ask that if you know of any graduate students, staff or faculty whom you believe should be given an opportunity for input into this issue, please forward this message onto them. For the sake of thoroughness, I've including the original posting from Will at the end of this message.

Please respond directly to Will Christie (chrstie@cc.umanitoba.ca), and if you don't mind please 'cc' me as well, as I would be curious to see the responses.

ACN will be renewing the SAS contract in August, so they would like feedback as soon as possible.

Regards, Doug ------------- Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP Senior Apple Computer Consultant Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba 204-474-6196 (Ph.) 204-474-7556 (Fax) http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/

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From: Will Christie chrstie@cc.umanitoba.ca Date: May 5, 2005 2:03:20 PM CDT (CA) Subject: [C-REPS] SAS for Macintosh usage

The University has an enterprise license for SAS that is not based on machine count but rather on the number of operating systems that are required by our institution. The cost of this contract is substantial and ACN is looking at discontinuing the licenses for unneeded operating systems. SAS for Macintosh is one potential candidate.

The current version of SAS is 9. SAS for Mac is still on version 6 with no plans to bring it up-to-date with other OSs. Are there any users of SAS for Mac? Are the University's SAS users being served with the Windows, Unix and Linux versions instead? ACN will be renewing our SAS contract in August, so your feedback before then will be appreciated.

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