Rather than stuff Revolution R Open into a proprietary box, Microsoft is keeping the popular math-and-stats language open source under the GPL After Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics and its ...

Revolution R Open is now called Microsoft R Open, and Microsoft continues its commitment of support for the open source R project, and to releasing regular updates to its enhanced, free distribution ...

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(Amit-Geron) Microsoft plans to open five additional sites in Israel and more than double its R&D workforce in the country over the next four years, the tech giant announced on Wednesday. Microsoft ...

Open source R is key for big data analytics, and Microsoft has infused many of its tools with the language One of Microsoft’s more interesting recent acquisitions was Revolution Analytics, a company ...

Microsoft this month updated its R Open programming language with multi-processor performance highlighting new functionality. Microsoft R Open is the company's enhanced, open source distribution of R, ...

Microsoft hasn't been standing still since it became the new commercial steward of the R programming language by acquiring R specialist Revolution Analytics a year ago. The company has been busy ...

In my story yesterday, “Microsoft's Revolution Analytics Acquisition Is The Wrong Way To Embrace R”, I argued that Microsoft could have a huge impact on its business by creating its own runtime for R.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Microsoft wants a slice of the big data analytics pie.

R, the open source programming language that is extremely popular with data professionals, seems to be Microsoft's latest religion. And, with the planned June 1st General Availability date for SQL ...

The Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine will include a pre-installed and pre-configured version of Microsoft R Server Developer Edition. Revolution R Open is now Microsoft R Open and is available ...