Hey Christopher, you absolutely correct about SAS and it's my fault, I missed the second A in there as well to make it SAAS, Software As A Service. FreshBooks is an online invoicing company that stores the software and data all on our servers and you access it all via a browser. <div>
<br></div><div>Sorry for the confusion :)</div><div>-jason shaw<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Christopher Browne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">cbbrowne@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Jason Shaw <<a href="mailto:grazer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">grazer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Nope, nothing fishy or anything, just that we are growing quickly (but<br>
> not recklessly) and have found holes that need filled. Do some googling on<br>
> FreshBooks and you'll see that it's an awesome company with a great<br>
> reputation and as such, we have a lot of clients and a lot of plans but not<br>
> enough (wo)man-power to make it all happen right now. Developers are the<br>
> major resource we are in need of though, what with being a SAS company and<br>
> all.<br>
<br>
</div>My understanding was that SAS was a *hyper*-expensive product, as in,<br>
thousands of dollars per seat, the whole traditional "mainframe<br>
pricing" model (and I gather this hasn't changed). One of my<br>
classmates in grad school wound up selling for them for a while. They<br>
were real big on selling class time at their "SAS Institute."<br>
<br>
When doing our grad work in statistics, the university found it way<br>
more economical to do site licensing of SPSS.<br>
<br>
But perhaps I'm misunderstanding, and you're not one of the SAS<br>
companies... <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_System" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_System</a>><br>
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