Sorry if news about SPSS is not of interest to everyone, but Yahoo is
reporting that IBM will acquire SPSS:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090728/ap_on_hi_te/us_ibm_spss_acquisition
What caught my eye is that both SPSS and IBM describe SPSS as a business
analytic tool. As a psychologist, I've felt that SPSS no longer cares
about serving my needs, and I fear that IBM's acquisition will only
accelerate that. Certainly the price of the software is growing beyond
what's reasonable for my to pay to analyze my experimental data.
So, I've seen a lot more users on this list over the past year and I
would hazard a guess that if PSPP is ready for general purpose use in a
year, you might get a big influx of new users fleeing SPSS.
-Alan
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possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
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