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." ----- 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. -- Puneet Kishor _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
