Thanks for the tip about Spotfire. We are trying to locate companies that would be interested in joining a collaborative effort to fund modifications, enhancements and customizations to R. Some efforts, such as improving performance for large datasets, would be released under the GPL. Other efforts, such as a better GUI for financial analysts using R, are likely to be released under a shared code license to members of the collaborative. In situations where we are developing custom code or shared code, we will probably use a linking scheme similar to Spotfire.
-----Original Message----- From: Spencer Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:29 PM To: Seshasayanan Pratap Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Interest in commercial support for R, R-metrics and related packages A representative from Spotfire (www.spotfire.com) told me they can link to S-Plus and R, and they use those links to produce custom code for customers. By the General Public License (GPL), Spotfire is required to offer under the GPL the code for how they link to R, but they don't have to make publicly available the code for their core product. Also, I don't think they have to make publicly available the code they write for customers as long as they are selling consulting services and not software. This may or may not help you, since Spotfire does not focus primarily on financial services. spencer graves Seshasayanan Pratap wrote: >I am a partner at Assembla, a software services group that helps companies >make use of open source techniques and software. We have been asked by a >company in the financial services sector to provide support for their use of >R, Rmetrics and possibly SciViews. > >I am trying to locate other companies in the financial services industry >that might be interested in commercial support for R, Rmetrics and/or other >R packages used for financial analysis. I would like to understand what type >of services - such as technical support, custom development, versions tuned >for financial analysis, user conferences/workshops, etc - would be >interesting to users of R. > >Thank you. > >Sesha Pratap > > ><http://ps3pub.psteering.com/assembla/discussion/discussion_create.jsp?obje c >tId=fs000080000g1asihvp0000000&parent=fs000080000g1sc50c0g000000> Reply > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > -- Spencer Graves, PhD, Senior Development Engineer O: (408)938-4420; mobile: (408)655-4567 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
