Statistical Analysis System, IPO or Sell?

SAS Institute, Best you NOT go public. Partners not doing as great as China with ‘deepseeking’ bots. Sell or Sell out? “Wrong move, at the right time”?

A “clear box” or known unknown?

Jim, do you have “THE POWER TO KNOW”?

Not as easy as flipping a coin. Right, Lots of connecting boxes.

Customers are victims of their own ‘Blackboxes’ going in circles unable to get to the ‘dot.’

Surprised Broadcom didn’t succeed given its reputation for playing a hard hand. Still, then as now, a buyout could be blocked by the heavy hand of “national security.”

But don’t let this dissuade you. Superconductors and Statistics are just as close to China as Chips. My Sensei tells me you’ve been doing business since they joined the WTO. 

But who isn’t doing business with the Rising Sun. Patents and Intellectual Property concerns?

Funny, just five years ago, Google was reportedly listed among defendants of the likes of Apple, Broadcom, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Cisco etc.

Speaking of CISCO, now here’s another buyout contender. Sure, they’ve been blasted for reportedly setting China up with surveillance equipment.

Of course, in this geopolitical spectrum, war is not an obstacle for some. Ask Israeli Defense Force about their reported access to Cisco data centers.

Of course, if war is your cup of tea, you could work with the Brits, BAE Systems.

Jim Goodnight, Founder and Chief Executive Officer how do your clients measure up. Are their systems moving properly?

Says Jim, “No one has the predictive analytic tools that we have. And we can handle much, much larger data than anyone else.” Jim that was in March, 22, 2012 in an interview with New York Times.

Tell us, how have these “analytic tools” worked for forecasting financial crises, pandemics, fires…? For Utilities companies it’s about “predicting peak power demand.”

Right, no real-time forecasts for blackouts but there are for brownouts?

Analyze that!

So, are you ready to go public or sell? Hard to let go of the power? Talk to the “Oracle of Omaha.’ He took the plunge.   

According to your Chief Tech Officer, “When you’ve run privately for 47 years, you’ve got to go do the audits to make sure all of the systems move (properly).”

Not always. Ask the Pentagon.

“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” – Mark Twain

Speaking of ‘damned lies’ tells us Geordie boy, can you compete with ‘deepseeking’ bot? Right, it’s NOT a $10 million computer system.

D-Wave: How much power did you unlock for Lockheed? Appears their boost in space was a bust. Damn, thirteen years after the ‘Sale of Quantum Computing System by D-Wave Systems to Lockheed Martin Corporation’ for a reported $10 million.

Sure, like BAE and DOD, Lockheed came to you. ZPE, as AI, was and is to be the ‘big wave’ to the Stars!

Tell us Lockheed, did the annealing processor help your “most challenging computation problems” like mission of returning NASA Astronauts back to earth?

Yet, it was Mission Possible for SpaceX. Elon doesn’t appear to need a QC for his rockets! 

D-Wave, Investors and Buyers as Competitors would say you did them a favor. They ‘dodged a bullet.’

Microsoft, what no supercomputer? But it seems ‘sandboxes’ did help. At least in making connections. Meantime, another 6,000 employees ‘bit the dust.’

Croatia to China, Brain drain or brain gate? Yes, Modi, deal with Washington includes U.S. VISAS and Indian ‘tech transfer.’

SAS, agreed, “quantum computing and quantum AI is… too often cloaked in hype.” But it is not “extremely complex.”

Geordie, appears the SherLOCK deal was just as bad as IBM’s ‘Watson.’ Guess ‘Watson’s Law’ was superseded by ‘Microsoft’s Law.’

My Sensei reminds me, “Mitsui Chemicals and IBM Japan have started verifying with Microsoft Azure OpenAI for the new application discovery.”

DATA: Problem or Solution?

In “The Final Problem”, Sherlock Holmes and mastermind Professor Moriarty fall to their deaths. For Holmes, the problem of a ‘threat’ appears to present itself before the ‘solution.’

Not unlike problem of ‘security threats.’ All to ‘protect’ the intangible, IP of DATA.

Initial goal of ‘private dicks’? Bleed the People dry of data. For without it, systems or techniques would not be possible and you’d be in Holmes position:

 “I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

And it is a capital offense to play with people’s lives. Yet, liken to Holmes “I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.” 

And now I’m serving it cold to you! 

SAS, just a matter of time before the square is cubed. Until you find you too are but a small dot in a square of the cube… 🙂