Re:The problem with SAS (Score 1)

SAS sued a source compatible competitor (World Programming) out of existence some years back, to destroy competition and maintain their high prices. I had trialled the World Programming solution and it worked very nicely.

SAS lost the copyright infringement portion of the lawsuit. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

World Programming was doing well enough to be acquired by Altair in the last couple of years (in turn acquired by Siemens). We use what is now called Altair SLC to run legacy SAS programs.