In an article about the IBM purchase of SPSS, R gets a brief mention as
a "price pressure" on software suppliers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/technology/companies/29ibm.html?_r=1&hpw
"The broad consolidation wave in business intelligence software,
analysts say, will bring increasing price pressure on some segments of
the industry as major companies seek to increase their share of the
market. And the open-source programming language for data analysis, R,
is another source of price pressure on software suppliers."
Chris
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