[Geowanking] R

[SteveC]

On 6 Jan 2009, at 19:21, Ian White wrote:

> The UK Navy announced some of their nuke-powered sub fleet will run  
> on Vista. How comforting

Whatever it runs its amazing they announced it at all


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> Subject: [Geowanking] R
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html
>
> money quote:
>
> SAS says it has noticed R's rising popularity at universities, despite
> educational discounts on its own software, but it dismisses the
> technology as being of interest to a limited set of people working on
> very hard tasks.
>
> "I think it addresses a niche market for high-end data analysts that
> want free, readily available code," said Anne H. Milley, director of
> technology product marketing at SAS. She adds, "We have customers who
> build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware
> when I get on a jet."
>
>
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>
> why is it that the corporate, proprietary software types come up with
> the most lame put-down for an open source competitor?
>
> on another note, I was kinda hoping to see Markus Neteler's fine work
> integrating R with GRASS in TFA.
>
> Still, good to see this shout-out to something as non-mainstream as R.
>
>
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> Puneet Kishor
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Best

Steve