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Open-source Software Threatens to Displace Commercial Analytics Tools

May 19, 2011

Analysis of:How Google and Facebook are using R | dataspora.com

Can open-source toolkits displace commercial analytics and scientific computing tools?SciPy along with related tools like Sage, R, and gnuplot are increasingly a substitute for 80% of the functionality of what Matlab and other commercial tools can provide. These open source toolkits threaten to disrupt the market for commercial scientific computing software.

Open source software as a threat to BI vendors

April 22, 2009

Analysis of:How Google and Facebook are using R | dataspora.com

Clay Christensen, in The Innovator's Dilemma recounts how disruptive products often emerge from a low-cost, yet inferior technology targeted to a small market. However, as Christensen writes, "products that seriously underperform today, relative to customer expectations in mainstream markets, may become directly performance-competitive tomorrow." Open source software fits squarely within this framework.

Open source software as a threat to BI vendors

April 22, 2009

Analysis of:How Google and Facebook are using R | dataspora.com

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