Posted on March 18, 2009, 8:56 am, by JD Long, under
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Lately I have been struggling for what type of database to use for my analytics work. SQL Server is a really good database but I always get the feeling it was built for stuff other than what I want to do with it. I keep feeling like I am digging post holes with a spade [...]
Posted on February 5, 2009, 12:03 pm, by JD Long, under
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Tibco acquired Insightful last year. Many folks have reported that S-Plus (the closed source implementation of the S language) was dang near financially killed by the success of R (the open source implementation of the S language). I may be slow on the update, but today I learned that a company named World Programming is [...]