I am sorry. I will refrain from this in the future (using the list which is a technical resource and not a forum inappropriately).
My blog has my views on it -http://decisionstats.com so I wont cut and paste on that. I would like to applaud David's team at REvolution for finally releasing an Ubuntu version of REvolution R, though the Windows version 64 bit was developed much earlier. I would like to say that Dave's credentials in open source or his personal technical authority has not been questioned by me ( and I don't think by anyone on this list). The new management is led by an ex Founder of SPSS, so I guess that things are looking up already. A new CEO can only mean more hunger to get R up and running in corporate circles so that smart people who write excellent code start making more money than ...? . Commerce demands that REvolution gets a bigger share than it has been getting and thats what most of the people on this list want ( except there is no forums section for discussion for R- help while there are forums section. Ajay Knoxville Student Go Vols! On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Erik Iverson <eiver...@nmdp.org> wrote: > Nothing to do with what R-help is about. Please refrain from posting > things like this in the future. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > > On Behalf Of Ajay ohri > > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:52 PM > > To: r-help@r-project.org; sas-l; spssx-l > > Subject: [R] News on R "s largest corporate partner REVolution Computing > > and SPSS CEO: > > > > Start the REvolution without me... > > http://danesecooper.blogs.com/divablog/2009/10/start-the-revolution- > > without-me.html > > > > *From Danese Cooper's Blog* > > > > > > Some of you may have become aware of REvolution > > Computing<http://revolution-computing.com/>, > > a commercial open source company organized around the R > > Language<http://www.r-project.org/>, > > when I joined in March > > <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10202355-92.html>of this year. For > > the past few months we have been working on a B-Round of > > funding. It was an interesting process and I was happy to be working in > > my > > first startup company after so many years in very large corporations. > > > > We built a small team to work on "Community Engineering", by which we > > meant > > developing assets both to benefit the R Language community as well as to > > entice and inform the "Alpha-Geek" community to learn and use R. We set > > up > > an Advisory Board designed to advise REvolution management about > decisions > > relating to REvo and Open Source, and we helped put REvolution R into the > > Karmic Koala release of Ubuntu. It was really fun to work in a small, > > agile > > team and I felt like I was getting a great education in startups and we > > were > > rapidly moving the company forward...Why didn't I join a startup years > > ago? > > > > The funding deal closed on Wednesday last week... > > > > Late the next afternoon I received a call from the new COO notifying me > > that > > my services would no longer be required at REvolution., effective > > immediately and with no severance. Apparently, the company is moving in > a > > different direction. > > <http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/10/revolution-computing-gets- > > major-funding-new-ceo.html> > > > > I was surprised that the new CEO, wasn't personally handling this > > unpleasant task...but I guess that might have been distasteful after the > > many assurances he gave me and my team last July at OSCON that we were > > "absolutely critical to the company's success" and that he would be > > "making > > no changes for at least three months after he assumed control". Personal > > courage in difficult situations is rare. > > > > What I find most interesting about today's REvolution announcements is > the > > space they spent thanking the previous management team, given nearly all > > of > > us, including the Founders and the Board, were just fired. 47% of the > > company wiped out and nobody left with more than a year of > > experience...Shit > > happens... > > > > And so we begin to pick up the pieces and move on. I've spent much of > the > > past few days consoling coworkers, personally breaking the news to the > > many > > kind friends who had agreed to help us increase interest in R and > > Revolution, and working out what I might be doing next. I have some > > interesting possibilities already, although I'm still open to > > suggestions...so stay tuned. > > > > Meanwhile I can honestly say that the new REvolution Computing will > little > > resemble the company I was proud to join and represent. I still think > the > > R > > Language is really interesting, but I'm no longer sure REvo is the one to > > watch in this space anymore...For the sake of my friends among the > > remaining > > employees and shareholders I hope I'm wrong. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > > guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
