The burgeoning interest in R demonstrates that there’s demand for analytics to solve real, business-critical problems in a broad spectrum of companies and roles, and that some of the incumbent analytics offerings, in particular SAS and SPSS, don’t sufficiently meet the growing need for analytics in many major companies. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fspotfire.tibco.com%2Fcommunity%2Fblogs%2Fenterpriseanalytics%2Farchive%2F2009%2F01%2F08%2Fanalytics-in-the-nyt.aspx