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Article #1178Re: is something afoot in the stat world?
From: J. Philip Miller
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 01:31
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 01:31
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> Lately there has been unusual activity among vendors of statistical packages,
> e.g. spss going public, mathsoft (mathcad) merging/acquiring stat-sci (s+).
> I wonder, is something afoot and if so what?
>
One interpretation is that the founding founders of those companies, SPSS &
StatSci are deciding now is an opportune time to cash in their chips and pool
the proceeds withe their TIAA account and plan their retirement. Certainly
with the general economic forcasts of the last several years, it would have
been hard to do previously. Perhaps neither of them saw any clear indicators
that they could grow substantially over the next several years by following
their current course.
One could speculate more and make comparisons with those that are not selling
out but I will refrain..............................
-phil
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J. Philip Miller, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Box 8067
Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO 63110
phil@wubios.WUstl.edu - (314) 362-3617 [362-2693(FAX)]
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5efb,eb74f7a213c21c8b X-Google-Attributes: gidf5efb,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-07-23 10:11:29 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!saturn.caps.maine.edu!maine.maine.edu!cunyvm!psuvm!auvm!WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU!phil Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: bit.listserv.stat-l Return-Path: <@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU,@VTBIT.BITNET:owner-stat-l@VM1.MCGILL.CA> Return-Path: <phil@wubios> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1022 Message-ID: <9307230131.AA17583@wubios> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 20:31:02 -0500 Sender: Stat-l Discussion List <STAT-L@MCGILL1.BITNET> From: "J. Philip Miller" <phil@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU> Subject: Re: is something afoot in the stat world? In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "James Ssemakula" at Jul 22, 93 04:59:25 pm Lines: 20