Splus for large Data

["paul king" <kingroi@hotmail.com>]

We are thinking of buying Splus for large data set and need to justify this 
to the management.
Does Splus 7 for large data  runs  the GAM (generalized linear regression) 
faster than the Splus 6? faster than R?    We have data with 7 millions rows 
and 400 columns
Also anyone has the patent number for the "pipeline architecture" that Splus 
7 uses?
Best, Paul

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