Microsoft to buy Revolution Analytics, pushing further into big data

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Microsoft this morning announced a deal to buy Revolution Analytics, the top commercial provider of software and services for the open-source R programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics.

“We are making this acquisition to help more companies use the power of R and data science to unlock big data insights with advanced analytics,” says Joseph Sirosh, Microsoft corporate vice president for machine learning, in a post announcing the deal.

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Revolution Analytics has been a benefactor to the R project. Hopefully, this is not part of an embrace, extend and extinguish strategy.

Link to the geekwire article.