Title | Microsoft Acquires Revolution Analytics | |
Date | Saturday January 24 2015, @11:45PM | |
Author | LaminatorX | |
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from the you-get-what-you-measure dept. |
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*
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