Comment on SAS under pressure from Pentaho by James

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Hi Kobus,

Thank you for your comment. You have some very good points. I agree about the value in using their integrated products as a stack.

With Weka, Kettle, and Mondrian we have features that overlap with some of the SAS product set. However we have not (from a marketing perspective) positioned ourselves as a direct competitor of SAS because analytics is a very specific market.

My main point is SAS they must be under some kind of pressure from Pentaho (and other open source BI offerings), otherwise they would not have done the interview.

I think it is important to note that the comments made about open source BI were not part of an interview focusing on a different topic, they were one of the main themes of the interview (and in the title).

James



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