MySQL's Urlocker Joins Revolution Board
Zack Urlocker has left Oracle to join the predictive analystics startup, REvolution Computing
The following excerpt is from Charles Babcock's article in InformationWeek on March 5, 2010.
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Former MySQL staffer Zack Urlocker is going to try to do for predictive analytics what he once did for relational database systems: bring open source code to a user population that hasn't necessarily had access to the technology before.
He's joining the board of REvolution Computing, a supplier of the open source R language used in statistical computing and analytics. Urlocker will work with CEO and President Norman Nie and fellow board members Robert Gentleman, the co-creator of R, and Don Nickelson, former president of The Paine Webber Group.
REvolution Computing of Palo Alto aims to move the R open source code beyond use by researchers and academics into the enterprise, challenging other suppliers of predictive analytics with open source as a disruptive force.
Urlocker was a key member of the MySQL AB team that built the open source firm up from a penniless free download agency to a company with $100 million in revenues.
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Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek, having joined the publication in 2003. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld and former technology editor of Interactive Week. He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Link to InformationWeek article