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Wow, jaw droppingly unexpected news. I mean, I knew they had done a lot of work to make r on windows work as well and parallel as r on Linux, but wow. I wonder if Apple is liking at R studio?

Also, congrats to the Revolution Analytics team!

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Yeah, very interested to see where this leaves R Studio. They don't seem like a direct competitor to Revolution Analytics. R Studio focuses on front end usability and ecosystem issues. Their R Studio IDE has great market share, and they seem to be making progress with Shiny.

TIBCO is probably more concerned about this. Their TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR) [1] competes directly against Revolution R Enterprise.

The Microsoft acquisition positions Revolution Analytics in a much stronger position against TIBCO. Specifically, it will allow them to integrate with Microsoft's BI stack (Excel, PowerPivot, SharePoint) to compete against TIBCO SpotFire.

[1] http://spotfire.tibco.com/discover-spotfire/what-does-spotfi...

This will make a lot of companies uncomfortable. The undisputed leaders in analytics, SAS and IBM, most of all.

Last time we met with Revolution Analytics they did their demos on a MacBook Pro running MacOSX using RStudio.

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