The UK Navy announced some of their nuke-powered sub fleet will run on Vista. How comforting
----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Tue Jan 06 19:08:46 2009 Subject: [Geowanking] R 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.3/1878 - Release Date: 1/6/2009 5:16 PM _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
