If you're looking for business and technical justifications for a business to adopt R, I wrote some up last year: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/02/how-to-get-it-to-accept-and-love-r.html
In summary: R is mainstream R is supported R is high-quality R leads commercial packages in innovation R is cost effective Ironically, for many companies #1 is more important than #5, so pointing to other companies using R is often a good strategy (see http://blog.revolution-computing.com/rmedia/ for some media articles that may help). And also (if I may indulge the list for a small plug) some companies are more comfortable paying for open-source software than installing it free of cost (for the support, validation, and so on). If that's the case for your company, there's REvolution R Enterprise: http://www.revolution-computing.com/products/revolution-enterprise.php Hope this helps, # David Smith -- David M Smith <da...@revolution-computing.com> VP of Marketing, REvolution Computing http://blog.revolution-computing.com Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Download REvolution R free: www.revolution-computing.com/downloads/revolution-r.php On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Fernando Henrique Ferraz Pereira da Rosa <pess...@fernandohrosa.com.br> wrote: > > Dear r-useRs, > > After a couple of years in a 'R exile' of sorts, I've recently changed jobs > and my current employer (an American multinational in the food manufacturing > industry) is much more open than my past employer (which wouldn't even want > to hear about anything that didn't begin with SAS...). So, after my > insistence corporate IT is now considering adopting R as part of our > statistical applications toolbox. > > Things are not that simple though, and I'm now in the process of collecting > data for writing a Business Case for R in our corporation, and this is the > reason I'm writing you. If you have any examples (preferably with > references) and/or experience in a similar scenario please do write me. I've > already googled for some materials, and there's an excellent piece on the > NyTimes of last year, which pointed that even Google was adopting R, and > this is exactly the sort of thing I need to help convincing IT they'll be > making a sound choice in adopting R. > > Thanks in advance for your attention, > > Fernando Rosa > > -- > "Though this be randomness, yet there is structure in't." > Rosa, F.H.F.P > > Instituto de Matemática e Estatística > Universidade de São Paulo > Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa > http://www.feferraz.net > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@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. > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
