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Brought To You By the Letter R: Microsoft Acquiring Revolution Analytics
theodp writes Maybe Bill Gates' Summer Reading this year will include The Art of R Programming. Pushing further into Big Data, Microsoft on Friday announced it's buying Revolution Analytics, the top commercial provider of software and services for the open-source R programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics. "By leveraging Revolution Analytics technology and services," blogged Microsoft's Joseph Sirosh, "we will empower enterprises, R developers and data scientists to more easily and cost effectively build applications and analytics solutions at scale." Revolution Analytics' David Smith added, "Now, Microsoft might seem like a strange bedfellow for an open-source company [RedHat:Linux as Revolution Analytics:R], but the company continues to make great strides in the open-source arena recently." Now that it has Microsoft's blessing, is it finally time for AP Statistics to switch its computational vehicle to R?
Why good things are always acquired by douchebag companies and ruined to the ground? First Java, now this.
You hear it here first, R the open source programming language wont run on linux as from the next revision.
Why would the GNU Project stop developing R for Linux because Microsoft bought up some other company that in no way controls or holds copyright to the R source code? In what universe does that make sense?
A bit like skype, linux version doesnt really work much ever since that shit company bought that as well.
It's actually the opposite. The Linux client was much shittier before it was bought by Microsoft. It languished far behind other OSes with respect to bug fixes and new features.
They haven't bought R. R is a GNU Project and still is even after this acquisition of a third party company.