SAS CEO: "I didn't believe in mobile"

Danny Palmer
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"I could not see any real reason to want to do analytics and bring results back to something the size of a BlackBerry," says CEO Jim Goodnight

The CEO of SAS has admitted the analytics software firm was "probably a little late" in its deployment of mobile solutions, because he didn't anticipate a reason for building products for BlackBerr...

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