....
but $10 billion is a lot of money, and death can last a long time. Bill
might feel tempted....
Phil
Philip Ryan
University of Adelaide
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Subject: Re: st: SPSS and IBM
At 10:25 PM 7/29/2009, Alan Acock wrote:
>This morning in The Financial Times I read a short article saying that
>IBM just bought SPSS for $1.2 Billion dollars. It said they were
>interested in it for Predictive Analytics--a long way from the roots
>of SPSS as the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. This
>development seems consistent with the recent name change in SPSS. It
>will be interesting to see where the package goes in terms of the
>statistical applications it offers.
>
>Alan Acock
I hope this doesn't mean that Microsoft will soon be making a $10
billion dollar takeover bid for Statacorp. I'm sure Bill Gould and
his partners would fight any such effort to the death though. :)
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