>>>>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:08:36 -0500, >>>>> Liaw, Andy (LA) wrote:
>> From: Spencer Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Martin says, "This is another instance of S-Plus following R >> behind and doing it incompatibly [with a reason?] ... ." >> >> This is one example of a major issue in "how to wage and win a >> standards war", discussed by Shapiro and Varian (1998) >> Information Rules >> (Harvard Business School Press). Whether you're Bill Gates or Larry >> Ellison, you want to make it easy for people to move to your product >> from a competitor but expensive for your current customers to >> escape to >> the competition. >> >> Spencer Graves > But I believe neither Insightful nor R-core would want to see each other as > competitor. (Reality might be quite different.) It would not be in the > best interest of either party. > (Apologies for putting words in R-Core's mouth. As for Insightful, at least > that's David Smith's word when he talked about `Future of S-PLUs' at the > 2002 Insightful Technology Conference.) I never saw R about trying to be a competition or replacement for Splus, in fact many of us in R Core think that it is an advantage for R that there also is a commercially supported version of S. I personally would rather like to see if S (i.e. R and Splus combined) gain market share at the cost of certain other statistical software packages (e.g., ones matching the regular expression S..?S :-) Best, Fritz ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
