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At our company adoption of open source tools happened bottom-up despite us having licenses for SAS, SPSS, Emblem etc etc. you name it we have it. But even havin
by safgasCVS 8y ago
At our company adoption of open source tools happened bottom-up despite us having licenses for SAS, SPSS, Emblem etc etc. you name it we have it. But even having easy access to these tools people here still found downloading R/Python was easier still than logging a call with IT and having to manager approval to install software.
Oh and on the legacy code - no it never goes away. The handful of SAS programmers around 20 years from now will be able to charge fortunes to maintain those legacy systems.
- hdkrgr 8y agoSimilar experience at my organisation, it definitely happened bottom-up. I hear that before I started, there was a locked room with a PC that had "that open source R" on it and people had to go to management and have some good reason if they wanted the key. Few years later, everone is using R and python for everything they do ad-hoc; so it made sense to also let them use the same languages for bigger projects. When we had to make some changes to legacy software for GDPR compliance, we took the opportunity and completely migrated some big legacy projects from SAS to R. We've just been able to get rid of licenses for some particularly costly SAS modules because of this.