Given that history, the last thing I expected to see at the Opening Session was a demo of SAS on the Mac–much less on the iPad. So anyone who really wants to run SAS on a Mac has had that ability for a while. And since then, of course, Mac users have gotten several different products that allow them to run Windows software. SAS Institute released SAS for the Mac lo these many years ago, but then dropped it just a couple years later because there weren’t enough users (read licenses) to justify it. If you have been using SAS as long as I have, then you probably know that running SAS on a Mac is nothing new. I thought by now someone would have written about SAS on the Mac and saved me the trouble, but since I don’t see much discussion of this in the blogosphere, here are my belated two cents.
