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IBM acquires SPSS
- gtzi 17y agofound via @monkchips on twitter
- neovive 17y agoInteresting. I always thought IBM would invest more into the R project which would seem more synergistic with their Linux strategy.
- a2tech 17y agoMaybe IBM will fix the ridiculous licensing situation with SPSS... Ehh this is IBM I'm sure they'll make it worse
- drubio 17y agoInteresting how even the word 'acquires' is different with IBM. SPSS is in analytics software, but its a 41 year-old company. Its unlikely its founders 'planned' their exit strategy when they started. I also don't think I will see Google or even Microsoft 'acquire' a 20+ year old company, let alone a 40+ year old one.
- blasdel 17y agoIsn't SPSS the very first independently sold commercial software package?
- olihb 17y agoIBM, please fix their software, it crashes all the time, the new versions of SPSS are slow, the charts are ugly as hell and the file formats are not open. It would be the best thing in the world if they could open source it, but I'm not holding my breath. I guess I could learn R, but old habits die hard...
- derwiki 17y agoYou're putting a lot of faith into IBM as far as user experience goes. You, my friend, have apparently never used Lotus Notes.
- hopeless 17y agoIndeed, this was my response when I heard the news: "SPSS should find a comfortable place in IBM's portfolio of impossible-to-use products"
- olihb 17y agoMy only exposure to IBM products were their Thinkpads and the various open source they contributed to. I heard about Lotus Notes, they say it's the hell-spawn of a whore and a prostitute.
- whyleyc 17y agoInternally we prefer to refer to it as "Bloatus Goats" :)
- philwelch 17y agoOr ClearCase.
- trevelyan 17y agoI reversed engineered their data files back in grad school while studying statistics. They were coded in base-three. I never figured out why.