On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Ryan Coleman wrote:

> The questions is this: WTH is SAS? It's not Serial attached SCSI.

Ha!  I was forgotting about the other SAS(es) while writing that.  I think 
it's also a Swedish airline.  The one I had in mind was Statistical 
Analysis Software:

http://www.sas.com/company/about/

You will probably find this interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sas-warms-to-open-source-one-letter-at-a-time/

One nice thing about SAS is that they have always treated their employees 
extremely well.  It was a great place for developers to work:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/18/60minutes/main550102.shtml

Mike