On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Vishal Vinayak Mujumdar 2 < vmujumd...@sapient.com> wrote:
> Hello Sir, > > We are planning to recommend 'R' as solution for Micro Services > implementation in one of the ongoing project. Sounds good to me. > > Please can you assist us with providing information pertaining to license > cost , commercial use , usage , warranty etc. > licensing cost: completely free. The source is licensed under the GPL version 2 or 3. Commercial use: Allowed. Again ,no cost. However, as an aside, remember that R is a _interpreter_ and not a _compiler_. This means that your customers, if any, must receive the source in order to execute it. This may be a consideration. Or, if this is via a "web" site as a service, it may not. Internal use would not be any concern. Usage: Don't do evil! is about the only "usage". But, in reality, you can use it however you want within its capabilities. I wouldn't used it to do real time work, personally. If you want to use it as control software for a nuclear reactor, please tell me so I can get a dosage meter to wear. Warranty: If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. That is, there is _no_ warranty at all. You _might_ be able to find a R consulting company which will give you some sort of contract and include some sort of warranty. But that is up to the consultant or consulting company. There is a bug reporting system _for the community_. Which means that you can report a bug, but there is no guarantee that anyone will every address it. OK, this is latter _very_ unlikely to occur because the programmers et al. behind R are conscientious, caring people. If you need a warranty, you'll need "3rd party maintenance", if there is such from anyone. Having said the above, there is no "damn it, I'm paying ???? for support and I demand!! a fix NOW!" option (I've overhead this type of comment) . I've even read message on some mailing lists similar to "I posted a question 5 hours ago! Where's my answer? I'm in a hurry!!!! Don't you people pay any attention?" That doesn't go over well here either. > > Thanks & Regards, > Vishal Vinayak Mujumdar > Specialist - Integration > SCG Integration Confluence< > https://tools.sapient.com/confluence/display/ISCGCI/Integration+SCG+Home> > | VOX< > https://vox.sapient.com/groups/enterprise-integration-shared-services> > Cell +1-617-331-4797 > ------ > SapientNitro > -- The man has the intellect of a lobotomized turtle. Maranatha! <>< John McKown [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
