john sall was the founder and ceo of the sas institute.
who is the founder and ceo of the sas institute?
john sall
sas institute has grown in revenue each year since it was incorporated in 1976. about 20-30% of the company's revenues are spent on research and development, which is the highest ratio among software companies of its size. in 1994, "computerworld" found that out of the world's 50 largest software companies, sas spent 2.5 times the industry average on r&d. as of 2010 revenues come relatively evenly from europe, africa, the middle east and the americas. according to the company's 2014 financial reporting, its revenues are currently 46.7 percent from the americas, 41.4 from europe, middle east and africa, and 11.9 percent from asia-pacific. sas has about 5,200 employees at its headquarters in cary, north carolina, 1,600 employees elsewhere in the us and 6,900 in europe, asia, canada or latin america. ceo james goodnight owns about two-thirds of the company and co-founder john sall owns the other one-third.
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the sas institute, creators of the sas system filed a lawsuit against world programming limited, creators of world programming system (wps) in november 2009. the dispute was whether world programming had infringed copyrights on sas institute products, and manuals and whether world programming used sas learning edition to reverse engineer sas system in violation with its term of usage.
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