From InfoWorld: Microsoft today closed its acquisition of Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of software and services for the R programming language, making it a wholly owned subsidiary.
"R is the world's most popular programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics, used by more than 2 million people worldwide," says Joseph Sirosh, corporate vice president of Information Management & Machine Learning at Microsoft.
"Revolution has made R enterprise-ready with speed and scalability for the largest data warehouses and Hadoop systems," he adds. "For example, by leveraging Intel's Math Kernel Library (MKL), the freely available Revolution R Open executes a typical R benchmark 2.5 times faster than the standard R distribution and some functions, such as linear regression, run up to 20 times faster. With its parallel external memory algorithms, Revolution R Enterprise is able to deliver speeds 42 times faster than competing technology from SAS."
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