This will be an interesting case study for "the new Microsoft," e.g., in terms of commitment to open source and ongoing support for non-Windows platforms; also see Microsoft is a 'strange bedfellow' for recently acquired open source company (Puget Sound Business Journal)
"We’re excited the work we’ve done with Revolution R will come to a wider audience through Microsoft. Our combined teams will be able to help more users use advanced analytics within Microsoft data platform solutions, both on-premises and in the cloud with Microsoft Azure. And just as importantly, the big-company resources of Microsoft will allow us to invest even more in the R Project and the Revolution R products. We will continue to sponsor local R user groups and R events, and expand our support for community initiatives. We’ll also have more resources behind our open-source R projects including RHadoop, DeployR and the Reproducible R Toolkit. And of course, we’ll be able to add further enhancements to Revolution R and bring R capabilities to the Microsoft suite of products."Revolution Analytics joins Microsoft
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