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Brought To You By the Letter R: Microsoft Acquiring Revolution Analytics

Posted by timothy on from the interesting-choice-of-letter dept.

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?

3 of 105 comments (clear)

  1. Coming soon: Visual R by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Drag and drop integrals.

  2. Re:Why oh Why by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Considering that this company neither owns the R language or holds any copyright over it it seems highly unlikely.

  3. Re: Why oh Why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Java was never good. Unless youre talking about the one in indonesia. Or the one in my mug every morning.