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SAS Warms to Open-Source One Letter at a TimeBy ASHLEE
VANCE<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/ashlee-vance/>

The SAS Institute has borrowed a page from Sesame Street. It is now
sponsoring the letter 'R.'

Last month, I wrote an
article<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html>
about
the rising popularity of the R programming language. The open-source
software has turned into a favorite piece of technology for statisticians
and other people looking to pull insights out of data.

On several levels, R represents a threat to SAS, which is the largest seller
of commercial statistics software. Students at universities now learn R
alongside SAS. In addition, the open-source nature of R allows the software
to be tweaked at a pace that is hard for a commercial software maker to
match.

All told, surging interest in the free R language could affect sales of SAS
software, which can sell for thousands of dollars. Rather than running from
the threat, SAS appears ready to try to understand R by adopting a more
active role in its development.

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