[gravypod]

I'd like to get my analysis systems as "inclusive" as possible. I'd be using my internal SQL server and just fall into python for my processing if I didn't care about sharing my work.

SAS looks good though. I've looked at it many times and it is a clean solution if you really are in the "big games".

[bigger_cheese]

Yeah that is a good point trying to separate analysis from database.

My work is going opposite direction unfortunately we are starting to use Hadoop makes it quite difficult to do things "outside of the database" there is just too much data to work with locally.

[mirimir]

SQL plus R is a good combo.