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Microsoft Acquires Revolution Analytics

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday January 24 2015, @11:45PM   
from the you-get-what-you-measure dept.

lubricus writes:

A post on the Revolution Analytics Blog announced today that it had been acquired by Microsoft.

For what it's worth, they say that users experiences' shouldn't change:

For our users and customers, nothing much will change with the acquisition. We’ll continue to support and develop the Revolution R family of products — including non-Windows platforms like Mac and Linux. The free Revolution R Open project will continue to enhance open source R. We’ll continue to offer expert technical support for R with Revolution R Plus subscriptions from the same team of R experts. We’ll continue to advance the big data and enterprise integration capabilities of Revolution R Enterprise. And we’ll continue to offer expert technical training and consulting services.

I hope that is true, but I'm far more worried that the talents of the likes of Hadley Wickham and the recent surge of R development are going to be subsumed by the M-Monster, much like we've seen when other open source projects have been acquired by large software companies *ahemORACLEahem*

• To save you the trouble of Googling for it: To save you the trouble of Googling for it: (Score: 5, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday January 25 2015, @12:01AM

  by wonkey_monkey (279) on Sunday January 25 2015, @12:01AM (#137723) Homepage

  Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical computing.

  I don't think including what Company X does or why we should care that they've been acquired would have been too much to expect in the summary.

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• Re:To save you the trouble of Googling for it: (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday January 25 2015, @12:16AM

  by frojack (1554) on Sunday January 25 2015, @12:16AM (#137727) Journal

  Came here to say the same thing....

  Now that I know that, I still can't bring myself to care.

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• The significance (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @08:55AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @08:55AM (#137812)

  Consider its openwashing value.
  The Latest ‘Microsoft is Open Source’ Propaganda a Parade of Lies [techrights.org]

  The latest propaganda from a Condé Nast publication reads like a puff piece from beginning to end [wired.com], truly complete and moreover decorated with a highly misleading headline whose aim is openwashing the most anti-FOSS (Open Source) company in the world.

  gewg_

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