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Probably off-topic - One of the schools I studied in was a sell out for this trash of a company SAS. They shoved their analytics software down our throats, and
by neya 9y ago
Probably off-topic - One of the schools I studied in was a sell out for this trash of a company SAS. They shoved their analytics software down our throats, and I had a whole module where I was forced to use their shitty software.
I vehemently refused to use it and did all my analyses on Jupyter notebooks w/ Python. Simply because the software sucked so bad to the point of being unusable. For starters, it ran ONLY on windows and to complete my assignments, I had to use bootcamp on my Mac just for this shitty software. It was not a cloud based interface and it seemed like it was built specifically for Windows. And to add to the pain, it would randomly crash, throw out irrelevant errors (uploaded too large of a data file? Here's an error stating something about the file extension) and really looked like it was developed in the 90's.
I was blown away when I realized people were paying millions in just licenses for this crap. Over time, even the school realized everything was moving towards the cloud and started advocating the use of Jupyter more and more.
I for one would seriously hope this company burns down to ashes. Simply because they're sitting on top of millions and yet can't afford to make usable software for the amounts they charge and yet, still have the audacity to shove it down at people's throats. Fuck SAS.
- blt 9y agoThe funny part is, SAS used to run on IBM mainframes, so most of the core computational libraries are highly portable. Probably just the GUI front end was tightly coupled to Windows.
- ConceptJunkie 9y agoThere is a whole industry of software that is the same. Look at BMC, which I'm familiar with. Or just about anything Oracle makes. Yes, their databases are fast and powerful, but dealing with a lot of Oracle software is like going back to the 1970s. As much as we like to rail on Microsoft (and it's well-deserved), companies like them and Apple, etc., have really made quantum leaps in usability that most enterprise software still hasn't made. Based on my experience, SAS isn't an egregious example, it's typical.