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Title    Microsoft Acquires Revolution Analytics
Date    Saturday January 24 2015, @11:45PM
Author    LaminatorX
Topic   
from the you-get-what-you-measure dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/01/24/1926213

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*

Links

  1. "lubricus" - https://soylentnews.org/~lubricus/
  2. "post on the Revolution Analytics Blog" - http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/01/revolution-acquired.html
  3. "Hadley Wickham " - http://had.co.nz/

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