Jmp Version History May 2026

JMP, a statistical software suite originally developed as "John’s Macintosh Project" by John Sall in the late 1980s, has evolved from a niche Mac tool into a global standard for scientists and engineers. Its history is marked by a transition from a dedicated Macintosh application to a cross-platform powerhouse that became a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS in 2022. Early Origins: 1989 – 2000

The Early Days: JMP 1.0 (1984)

Then, in 1989, a whisper came from a Macintosh lab in Cary, North Carolina. Two SAS Institute co-founders, John Sall and James Goodnight, had a radical vision: what if you could see the statistics? jmp version history

Key Notes:

• JMP Pro (introduced around JMP 11) adds advanced predictive modeling (neural nets, random forests, boosted trees, cross-validation) and validation tools.
• JMP Student Edition – Reduced version for education, based on older releases (usually v14–v16).
• JMP versions prior to 9.0 were Mac-only or had limited Windows features; from 9.0 onward, both platforms are fully synchronized.

JMP 2.0 (1991) added survival analysis and the beginnings of design of experiments (DOE). JMP 3.0 (1994) brought the "JMP Journal," a reproducible report format that saved graphs and scripts together—decades ahead of modern notebooks. JMP, a statistical software suite originally developed as