The open-source statistical software has attracted a lot of attention: revolution was venture capital, and CEO of SPSS

Revolution computing can be said to be the RedHat in the statistical software field. They provide commercial services and support for open-source data analysis software R. Recently, they received a total of $9 million in venture capital investments from North Bridge Venture Partners and Intel capital, and appointed Norman Nie as CEO of the company. Norman Nie is a professor at Stanford University. More importantly, he is the founder and former CEO of SPSS.

 

Revolution R is about to officially release version 3.0. Now we can see it after downloading Ubuntu 9.10. Revolution R's improvements include the use of Optimized BLAS function libraries for matrix operations and convenient deployment of parallel computing. The paid Enterprise Edition of revolution R will also launch an r ide.