How R is disrupting a billion-dollar market

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Zack Urlocker, the EVP for Products at MySQL before it was acquired by Sun (and now an executive at Sun) has written an article at InfoWorld suggesting that the recent rash of articles looking at how IBM's acquisition of SPSS is affecting the BI market dominated by SAS are downplaying the real agent of change in the space: R. According to Urlocker, the BI battle isn't between IBM and SAS, instead "the little known open source project R may be the disruptor in this billion-dollar market". He goes on: R continues to gather momentum, just as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and...

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