Re: Silverlight Demo

Roland,

If you expose SAS on the web, you have 2 choices: IntrNet or Integration
Technologies. IntrNet is a a lot cheaper that IntTech. They each have
advantages. IntrNet is super fast since it has little overhead. IntTech is
where SAS is heading and has a lot of robust technologies such as web
services support (although Don and I have shown how to do web services using
IntrNet as well).

Yes, you can bypass the above 2 using alternatives (I have done it in a
lab). However, you will violate licensing if you do. I said "in a lab" for a
reason ;-]

If less expensive is the goal, license IntrNet and then either use it or
not. Frankly, I would use it since it does what it does very efficiently.

If you don't have to expose SAS processing, consider pushing your data into
a mid-tier (SQL Server Express, for example) and then using it as a driving
engine for data. I have done that with a few clients and it works for a more
static-driven application.

Silverlight is wickedly cool. I am suddenly excited about developing web
applications again.

Since you into clinical stuff, check this out:

http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/

Now imagine that the objects you zoom in and out of are clinical reports.
While the demo you see is merely 1 dimensional, it can be n-dimensional.
Classify reports by disease/condition then zoom in to the study, the
patient, then the actual piece of paper from the trial.

Alan

Alan Churchill
Savian
www.savian.net


-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
RolandRB
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:30 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Silverlight Demo

On Jun 30, 3:07 am, savian...@GMAIL.COM (Alan Churchill) wrote:
> All,
>
> Don Henderson and I did a demo at SGF showing off SAS and Silverlight. The
> recent release of beta 2 of Silverlight 2.0 combined with a directory
change
> broke the app. It was only recently brought to our attention (thanks Ed).
>
> For those of you who may have tried to go and see the demo but had a
> failure, I just wanted to let you know it is back online. It can be found
> here:
>
> http://demo.savian.net/Silverlight/S...sTestPage.aspx
>
> As a quick recap, this demo shows Silverlight accessing SAS via
SAS/IntrNet
> Application Dispatcher. Parts of the site use XAML code generated by
> SAS/IntrNet, parts don't.
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Churchill
> Savian
> <http://www.savian.net/>www.savian.net

Is SAS/IntrNet expensive to licence? The thing that puts me off SAS is
the cost of it for a multi-user environment that flies in the face of
cheaper or even free alternatives. It's like SAS has signed its own
death warrant. I get the impression that people should now be looking
into alternatives for SAS like R and as for the front end stuff then
Silverlight looks a good choice.