[R] REvolution

[John Kane]

http://www.revolution-computing.com/revolution_company.html

seems to lead to something albeit vague. 

Lots of apparently big names but no indication of what
added value the company might bring to an R user.


--- John Maindonald <John.Maindonald at anu.edu.au>
wrote:

> Does anyone know any more than is in the following
> press release
> about REvolution Computing and their
> commercialization of R?
> 
>
http://www.intel.com/capital/news/releases/080122.htm
> 
> "Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel
> Corporation, today  
> announced that it has invested in the Series A
> financing of REvolution  
> Computing, creator of parallel computing software
> for computational  
> statistics"
> 
> "R has become the de-facto statistical language and
> REvolution  
> Computing's R-based solutions provide the necessary
> scale and support  
> for its growing commercial usage,� said Andre M.
> Boisvert, Revolution  
> Computing board member. �With this investment,
> Revolution Computing  
> can deliver the type of performance that has been
> missing in existing  
> computational statistics offerings."
> 
> "For more information on Revolution Computing, RPro,
> and ParallelR,  
> visit
> www.revolution-computing.com"
> 
> At present though, unless you have better success
> than me, all you  
> will get from the Revolution Computing site is a
> revolutionary song!
> 
> John Maindonald             email:
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