IBM wanted to buy SAS - Jim Goodnight just said no -TechWire Insider

Updated Jun. 21, 2012 at 9:21 a.m.

IBM wanted to buy SAS - Jim Goodnight just said no

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By RICK SMITH, WRAL Tech Wire Editor

Tags: IBM, SAS, Opinion Analysis, Jim Goodnight

Jim Goodnight, co-founder and chief executive officer of SAS, tells Reuters that he rebuffed an IBM offer to buy the company.

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SAS employees are no different than the Kool-Aid swillers at IBM. When Jim Goodnight turns a fast corner while walking, the SAS'ers necks snap... it's still just another company with The Man at the Top of the Pyramid making all the bucks on the backs & efforts of his worshipers.

anonymous
June 30, 2012 6:09 p.m.

SAS employees dodged a bullet there.

anonymous
June 23, 2012 9:11 a.m.

Good thing - IBM would have ruined it for sure. Wouldn't have had a clue how to market their products and the wholething would be gone in a few years.

anonymous
June 22, 2012 8:17 p.m.

Good going Jim. Tell IBM to pound sand! And the first post comments are correct. IBM just want's SAS customers, that's all!

anonymous
June 21, 2012 5:32 p.m.

Nice try IBM. Go buy some more Chinese companies.

Michael Lentz
June 21, 2012 11:32 a.m.

I agree - great that he didn't consider selling. He's one of the few CEOs to recognize that the employee is the main, if not only, appreciating asset with a company.

Unfortunately for any company, the reality of business means that they are still treated as line items on a budget sheet.

Ron Instead
June 21, 2012 10:22 a.m.

Kudos to Jim for not selling. He is absolutely correct. SAS would quickly either vanish or change so drastically under the big IBM that it would be a mere l of what it is today.

anonymous
June 21, 2012 10:15 a.m.

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