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NYT: SAS facing stiff competition
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| In a front-page article in Sunday's
| business section, the New York Times takes
| a look at SAS and how it is increasingly
| facing competition from both proprietary
| and open-source alternatives.
|
| [...]
|
| But competition is coming from the other
| direction, too: open-source. The article
| specifically mentions R, which competes
| with SAS to offer high-end statistical and
| predictive analyses.
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http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/22679
New open source language for developing digital signal processor
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| The high-level language, called Feldspar
| (Functional Embedded Language for DSP and
| PARallelism, a language embedded into
| Haskell), will make DSP software
| development easier and more efficient, says
| AndrÃs Vajda, senior specialist in Software
| Research and project coordinator at
| Ericsson for Feldspar.
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http://frontierindia.net/it/new-open-source-language-for-developing-digital-signal-processor/684/
Recent:
REvolution R coming to Ubuntu
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| REvolution Computing's enhanced distribution of R,
| REvolution R, has been available for free download
| from our website for Windows and MacOS for over a
| year now, and has been used by thousands of R users
| for high-performance statistical data analysis. Soon,
| we'll be expanding our free distributions to Ubuntu
| Linux, with the release of REvolution R 3.0.
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http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/22011
The "R" Statistical Environment, and REvolution Computing, Spread Out
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| REvolution Computing offers REvolution R, an enhanced distribution of R, as a
| free download. It also offers REvolution R Enterprise, a subscription-based
| version of R aimed at large companies that work with large data sets, and
| ParallelR (included in the Enterprise edition), which can take advantage of
| multi-processor systems and clusters for large data crunching tasks. R
| itself, and REvolution's versions, are being embraced in a number of fields,
| with a number of innovative new applications arriving.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/the-r-statistical-environment-and-revolution-computing-spread-out#buzz
SAS Warms to Open-Source One Letter at a Time
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| âR is a leading language for developing new statistical methods,â Bob
| Rodriguez, the senior director for statistical development at SAS, said in
| the notice. âOur new Ph.D. developers learned R in their graduate programs
| and are quite versed in it.â
|
| The company looks to add more R support into its software as soon as next
| year.
|
| While limited for the moment, SASâs support may be enough to open the company
| up more to the R discussion and developers in the future.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/sas-warms-to-open-source-one-letter-at-a-time/
Science and KDE: rkward
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| rkward is a nice frontend for the R programming language, which adds a GUI
| with the power of KDE to R. Unfortunately the program is still somewhat
| unstable (also shown by a warning when you run it) and its main developer has
| currently very little time to work on it. In case you may want to help, you
| can hop to the rkward-devel mailing list.
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http://www.dennogumi.org/2009/02/science-and-kde-rkward
Data Analysts Captivated by Râs Power
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| It is also free. R is an open-source program, and its popularity reflects a
| shift in the type of software used inside corporations. Open-source software
| is free for anyone to use and modify. I.B.M., Hewlett-Packard and Dell make
| billions of dollars a year selling servers that run the open-source Linux
| operating system, which competes with Windows from Microsoft. Most Web sites
| are displayed using an open-source application called Apache, and companies
| increasingly rely on the open-source MySQL database to store their critical
| information. Many people view the end results of all this technology via the
| Firefox Web browser, also open-source software.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?em
Related:
R: A (Statistically) Significant Language
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| When people talk about big, successful open-source projects, they often think
| about software that can be used in large organizations. So we hear a great
| deal about the Linux operating system, the MySQL database, and even Ruby on
| Rails as a framework for developing Web applications.
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http://ostatic.com/158480-blog/r-a-statistically-significant-language
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