Revolution Rebooting R with Name Change and New Strategy
The following excerpt is from Dana Blankenhorn's article in ZDNet's Open Source section, May 5 2010.
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Revolution Computing, which commercializes the R statistical language, is changing its name and launching a new strategy aimed at business users.
The company will now be called Revolution Analytics, said COO Jeff Erhardt, and plans to donate full versions of its commercial offering to universities.
"These guys are out developing modules that aren't built around ease of use or scalability. We will give them a better platform so when corporations see this module it's not just powerful, but easier to use and more scalable."
Business intelligence software companies have been doing well by encouraging business students to use their wares, Erhardt said, and this part of the firm's new strategy is to emulate that.
But that's just one element in a larger whole.