Re:Ease? (Score 1)

It is clear you have not used SAS before. SAS itself is not user friendly at all and dont follow any GUI standard apart SAS GUI standard, so all platforms have the same look and feel. A SAS user can easly be productive because it is the same user interface he is use to in other platforms. I have used SAS on mainframes, WNT and several UNIX flavors and I have to tell you, as expected WIN32 sucks as SAS platform. SAS is a very CPU/RAM intensive application and there is no reason to run it on a platform with those high hardware requirements as WINNT. Do not even try it at W95. I sure SAS over Linux will have a better benchmark results and lower hardware requirements than W32 platforms.