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To: INFO_DART who wrote (18)	11/4/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: Daniel Shaffer	of 23

I just don't know if SPSS is strong or aggressive enough to hold or take market share away from the big guys in the data warehousing and data mining business, e.g. SAP - the European "Microsoft" of corporate number crunching and NCR's Teradata. I think they might be smart to carefully target some smaller niches and then dominate those niches. For example SAS and SAP are notorious for high annual licensing fees that they charge users, including universities. If SPSS targets business schools and makes them offers they can't afford to refuse, SPSS can capture a lot of MBA mindshare. Here's my original post to this discussion: To: Philip H. Lee (8 ) From: Daniel Shaffer Friday, Oct 31 1997 2:03PM ET Reply # of 18 SPSS Rated #11 by Forbes among "200 Best Small Cos." Hello, Philip I notice that SPSS was listed as No. 11 in the Nov. 3, 1997 issue of Forbes Magazine in an article titled, "The 200 Best Small Companies in America". I do not own SPSS but I have used their software. Their SPSS for Windows is an excellent product and gaining a lot of market share in the university communities (especially their bargain-priced "educational" edition]. What do you or anybody think about SPSS as an investment today? Dan

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