There are several ways in which SAS could be supported under Linux. This could be accomplished either as a dedicated port to Linux, or by conformance to a compatibility standard. SAS does not, and never has run under SCO OpenServer. SI will happily sell you a license tomorrow and will support it. I hope that straightens it out.
Emulation is at best a workaround.
For the SAS user who is running Linux but wants some access to SAS functionality, it may prove useful. The disadvantages are, generally, that the application running under emulation has access to neither the full features of its native environment, nor those of its transplanted home. Performance is usually reduced, and SAS licensing may be an issue. While I do not know of any successful attemps to run SAS under emulation in Linux, there are several promising avenues. Compatibility Common Intel architecture binary standard Would allow running SCO UnixWare, Solaris x85, or other x86 Unix binaries on Linux iBCS2 is the standard that is used by SVr3 to define the interface betweeen user applications and the kernel.