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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Statistical software |
| Predecessor | Revolution Computing |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, CA , United States |
Key people | David Rich, CEO |
| Products | Revolution R |
| Revenue | 8-11 Million in 2009 |
| Owner | Microsoft[1] |
| Parent | Microsoft |
| Website | revolutionanalytics |
Revolution Analytics (formerly REvolution Computing) is a statistical software company focused on developing open source and "open-core"[2] versions of the free and open source software R for enterprise, academic and analytics customers. Revolution Analytics was founded in 2007 as REvolution Computing providing support and services for R in a model similar to Red Hat's approach with Linux in the 1990s as well as bolt-on additions for parallel processing. In 2009 the company received nine million in venture capital from Intel along with a private equity firm and named Norman H. Nie as their new CEO. In 2010 the company announced the name change as well as a change in focus. Their core product, Revolution R, would be offered free to academic users and their commercial software would focus on big data, large scale multiprocessor (or "high performance") computing, and multi-core functionality.
Microsoft announced on January 23, 2015, that they had reached an agreement to purchase Revolution Analytics for an as yet undisclosed amount.[3][4] In 2021, Microsoft announced they would be retiring their R distribution they acquired from Revolution Analytics.[5] In 2023, Microsoft retired the Microsoft R Application Network, which was a proprietary package hosting service similar to the Comprehensive R Archive Network for packages acquired from Revolution Analytics (like "ScaleR").[6]
- ^ Kniskern, Kip (6 April 2015). "Microsoft completes Revolution Analytics acquisition: bringing big data analytics "to everyone"". WinBeta.
- ^ Blankenhorn, Dana. "Revolution rebooting R with name change and new strategy". ZDNet. Archived from the original on May 9, 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ "Microsoft to acquire Revolution Analytics to help customers find big data value with advanced statistical analysis". Official Microsoft Blog Post. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
- ^ "Revolution Analytics joins Microsoft". Official RA Announcement. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
- ^ Rowland-Jones, James (2021-06-30). "Looking to the future for R in Azure SQL and SQL Server". Microsoft SQL Server Blog. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ^ "Microsoft R Application Network retirement". TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM. Retrieved 2024-01-17.