On October 2, 2009, SPSS is holding a special stockholder meeting to consider and vote on a proposed acquisition of SPSS by IBM.  Nucleus expects the deal will go through and it makes a lot of sense.  Predictive analytics is a perfect complement to IBM’s existing database, data management, and business intelligence (BI) tools.  Those that have assembled data structure to report on and query data can leverage SPSS to look forward and make more accurate predictions about their business.