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Am 24.01.2015 um 04:08 schrieb Paul Merrell:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Matthias Kluwe <mkluwe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The second is still a little mistery to me, but in the process of
>> upgrading to a new version of SAS
>> (http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/sas9.html),
> 
> I followed that link, read that page, and read the Features page, but
> still have no idea what the core functionality of SAS is. They seem to
> have overlooked explaining that in their excitement about particular
> features.

No, they expect that their sales people already have you on your hook.
And you're not expected to understand too much technical detail.

> For what purpose might someone want to install and use this software?

It's kind of a data analysis management storage reporting client server
with sql engine programming language development environment sold to
management which has too much money to spend. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_%28software%29.

Matthias