I have known 2 or 3 people, actuaries or closely related, and they always spoke very very very highly of SAS.

I assume you mean 'Statistical Analysis System' (or very close to that).

I never used it myself.


>Hi all,
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>I have been using visual foxpro mainly for data manipulation, queries and data analysis. I have found it a great product to work with and doing a very good job for these tasks. Now foxpro is not going to be supported any more there are some (actuarial) departments looking for other products to work with in the long term.
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>Especially SAS seems to be high on their list. I have heard from someone that it is even beter than foxpro in doing these specified taskd. Anyone can confirm this? Or has someone worked with SAS? Is there an online resouce that compares these tools?
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>Any input is welcome. Thanks beforehand.