Microsoft are about to buy Revolution analytics

amplesand writes: R-bloggers reports that Microsoft are about to buy Revolution analytics. From The Official Microsoft Blog: "I’m very pleased to announce that Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Revolution Analytics. Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, the world’s most widely used programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics. We are making this acquisition to help more companies use the power of R and data science to unlock big data insights with advanced analytics." This time they have indeed embraced a strategic piece of the computing community. What will the future be for the language R, and, code which typically is licensed under the GPL and available at www.r-project.org. R is also an official part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project?