As we noted in this post, one of the open source-focused companies that made a big splash at the recent OSCON conference was
REvolution Computing. The company champions the use of
R, an open source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is used by many researchers when parallel processing of statistical data can help sift and analyze large amounts of information. We discussed what it's capable of at length
in this post,?and here are some of the new directions REvolution Computing and R are going in.