Microsoft has launched a new advanced analytics platform based on the R programming language, less than a year after it acquired Revolution Analytics, the company that was previously the leading commercial provider of software and services for R.

The new platform is called Microsoft R Server, and is compatible with Windows, Linux, Hadoop and Teradata software. It can be obtained via Microsoft’s DreamSpark educational program or alternatively, from the Microsoft Developer Network.

The news was brought to our attention by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, who revealed there are no less than five products in the new Microsoft R Server family:

Microsoft R Server for Hadoop on Red Hat

Microsoft R Server for Teradata DB

Microsoft R Server for Red Hat Linux

Microsoft R Server for SuSE Linux

RRE for Windows

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