Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO:
On 22/10/2009, at 7:20 AM, David M Smith wrote:
It is clearly inappropriate for me or anyone else from REvolution to
comment on matters pertaining to any employee or ex-employee. I would
further add that this is a highly inappropriate use of this list.
Oh, I dunno. I have the impression that the REvolution
initiative has, or could have, a substantial impact upon R,
and thus what goes on at REvolution is of concern to the
R community.
Apologies to all concerned.
For what? For the fact that a particular cat has been let
out of a particular bag?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO:
Well I do not think that this is highly inappropriate use of this list. I am sure you new designation of VP makes you feel all more powerful but your authority does not extend to this list. It should continue to rest with Core R team. It seems had this list been under your control (i.e revolution computing) you would have turned it off-typically Corporate Strategy. Just an example how money and designation influences those who claim otherwise. Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:20:08 -0400 From: da...@revolution-computing.com To: ohri2...@gmail.com CC: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO: It is clearly inappropriate for me or anyone else from REvolution to comment on matters pertaining to any employee or ex-employee. I would further add that this is a highly inappropriate use of this list. Apologies to all concerned. # David Smith On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Ajay ohri ohri2...@gmail.com wrote: Start the REvolution without me... -- David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com VP of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free: http://revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO:
On 22/10/2009, at 8:27 AM, kulwinder banipal wrote:
Well I do not think that this is highly inappropriate use of this
list. I am sure you new designation of VP makes you feel all more
powerful but your authority does not extend to this list. It should
continue to rest with Core R team. It seems had this list been
under your control (i.e revolution computing) you would have turned
it off-typically Corporate Strategy. Just an example how money
and designation influences those who claim otherwise.
Right on, Red Freak!!!
cheers,
Rolf Turner
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:20:08 -0400
From: da...@revolution-computing.com
To: ohri2...@gmail.com
CC: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution
Computing and SPSS CEO:
It is clearly inappropriate for me or anyone else from REvolution to
comment on matters pertaining to any employee or ex-employee. I would
further add that this is a highly inappropriate use of this list.
Apologies to all concerned.
# David Smith
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Ajay ohri ohri2...@gmail.com
wrote:
Start the REvolution without me...
--
David M Smith da...@revolution-computing.com
VP of Community, REvolution Computing www.revolution-computing.com
Tel: +1 (206) 577-4778 x3203 (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
Download REvolution R free:
http://revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php
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Re: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO:
I am sorry. I will refrain from this in the future (using the list which is a technical resource and not a forum inappropriately). My blog has my views on it -http://decisionstats.com so I wont cut and paste on that. I would like to applaud David's team at REvolution for finally releasing an Ubuntu version of REvolution R, though the Windows version 64 bit was developed much earlier. I would like to say that Dave's credentials in open source or his personal technical authority has not been questioned by me ( and I don't think by anyone on this list). The new management is led by an ex Founder of SPSS, so I guess that things are looking up already. A new CEO can only mean more hunger to get R up and running in corporate circles so that smart people who write excellent code start making more money than ...? . Commerce demands that REvolution gets a bigger share than it has been getting and thats what most of the people on this list want ( except there is no forums section for discussion for R- help while there are forums section. Ajay Knoxville Student Go Vols! On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Erik Iverson eiver...@nmdp.org wrote: Nothing to do with what R-help is about. Please refrain from posting things like this in the future. -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ajay ohri Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:52 PM To: r-help@r-project.org; sas-l; spssx-l Subject: [R] News on R s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing and SPSS CEO: Start the REvolution without me... http://danesecooper.blogs.com/divablog/2009/10/start-the-revolution- without-me.html *From Danese Cooper's Blog* Some of you may have become aware of REvolution Computinghttp://revolution-computing.com/, a commercial open source company organized around the R Languagehttp://www.r-project.org/, when I joined in March http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10202355-92.htmlof this year. For the past few months we have been working on a B-Round of funding. It was an interesting process and I was happy to be working in my first startup company after so many years in very large corporations. We built a small team to work on Community Engineering, by which we meant developing assets both to benefit the R Language community as well as to entice and inform the Alpha-Geek community to learn and use R. We set up an Advisory Board designed to advise REvolution management about decisions relating to REvo and Open Source, and we helped put REvolution R into the Karmic Koala release of Ubuntu. It was really fun to work in a small, agile team and I felt like I was getting a great education in startups and we were rapidly moving the company forward...Why didn't I join a startup years ago? The funding deal closed on Wednesday last week... Late the next afternoon I received a call from the new COO notifying me that my services would no longer be required at REvolution., effective immediately and with no severance. Apparently, the company is moving in a different direction. http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/10/revolution-computing-gets- major-funding-new-ceo.html I was surprised that the new CEO, wasn't personally handling this unpleasant task...but I guess that might have been distasteful after the many assurances he gave me and my team last July at OSCON that we were absolutely critical to the company's success and that he would be making no changes for at least three months after he assumed control. Personal courage in difficult situations is rare. What I find most interesting about today's REvolution announcements is the space they spent thanking the previous management team, given nearly all of us, including the Founders and the Board, were just fired. 47% of the company wiped out and nobody left with more than a year of experience...Shit happens... And so we begin to pick up the pieces and move on. I've spent much of the past few days consoling coworkers, personally breaking the news to the many kind friends who had agreed to help us increase interest in R and Revolution, and working out what I might be doing next. I have some interesting possibilities already, although I'm still open to suggestions...so stay tuned. Meanwhile I can honestly say that the new REvolution Computing will little resemble the company I was proud to join and represent. I still think the R Language is really interesting, but I'm no longer sure REvo is the one to watch in this space anymore...For the sake of my friends among the remaining employees and shareholders I hope I'm wrong. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R
