RE: st: STATA Vs. SAS

[Steven Dubnoff <sdubnoff@circlesys.com>]

At 06:36 PM 11/27/2002 -0500, Ed Bassin wrote:

> Database connectivity, or the lack of it, is one of the biggest barriers
> that I face bringing Stata into corporate environments.... The performance
> is very good, better than infile.  However, the fact that you need another
> piece of software is a major turnoff in most companies.
I don't quite understand this.  You would rather pay thousands of dollars 
every year for an extra cost database connectivity component from SAS 
rather than pay $300 once for a data transfer program.  What am I missing?

Best,

Steve


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