Tag: Microsoft Windows

Revolution Analytics and Pricing Analytics

Cost of 1 day of Revolution Analytics Training at http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/services/training/

 

1. Intro to R

Price:  Commercial: SGD$500.00
Academic:SGD$350.00

1 Singapore dollar = 0.8197 US dollars

10% Early Bird Discount Deadline: November 13, 2012 @ 12:00PM Pacific Time
Discount code: earlybird

2. (aptly titled Minimalistic Sufficient R…you think the ricing would be minimalistic.. but)

http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/services/training/public/minimalist-sufficient-r.php

Price: 

$750

$100 Early Bird Discount Deadline: November 16, 2012 @ 12:00PM Pacific Time
Discount code: earlybird

3.

Advanced R (Italian)

Price:  Commercial: €680.00
Academic: €480.00

1 euro = 1.2975 US dollars

4.

Big Data AnalyticS with RevoScaleR

Price:  $500 with 2 month Revolution R Enterprise workstation evaluation.

$700 with 1 year subscription of Revolution R enterprise workstation ($1500 value)

10% Early Bird Discount Deadline: October 30, 2012 @ 12:00PM Pacific Time
Discount code: early

5.

Revolution R Time Series Training

Price:  Commercial: S$1,200.00
Academic:S$750.00

10% Early Bird Discount Deadline: October 30, 2012 @ 12:00PM Pacific Time
Discount code: earlybird

so training costs differently different strokes for different folks I guess,

BUT me hearties.

Cost of 1 year of Revolution Enterprise= $1000

Thats a flat rate, so the Linux and Windows costs the same and so does the 32-bit and 64-bit

(see http://buy.revolutionanalytics.com/ )

( My comment- either Revo should give away the license for free to enterprises, rationalize training costs, seriously how can 2 days of training cost like a 1 year of license and the software is definitely quite good., or create a paid Amazon Ec 2 AMI for enterprises to rent the Revolution Analytics software (like SAP Hana ), or even on Windows Azure if they insist on hugging Microsoft, though I am clearly seeing various flavors of Linux beating Windows Server to a pulp in the Big Data market, though I am probably more optimistic on the Windows 8 on Surface but because of hardware not software/ Azure alternative to Amazon given Google’s delayed offering- I dont even know many many instance of Windows related HPC or HPA,  (/end_of_rant)

Annual Subscription
Includes software license and technical support		 Price Quantity Total
Revolution R Enterprise Single-User Workstation (64-bit Windows) $1,000.00 $0.00
Revolution R Enterprise Single-User Workstation (32-bit Windows) $1,000.00 $0.00
Revolution R Enterprise Single-User Workstation (64-bit Red Hat 6 Enterprise Linux) $1,000.00 $0.00
Revolution R Enterprise Single-User Workstation (64-bit Red Hat 5 Enterprise Linux) $1,000.00 $0.00

 

Amazon gives away 750 hours /month of Windows based computing

and an additional 750 hours /month of Linux based computing. The windows instance is really quite easy for users to start getting the hang of cloud computing. and it is quite useful for people to tinker around, given Google’s retail cloud offerings are taking so long to hit the market

But it is only for new users.

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/01/aws-free-usage-tier-now-includes-microsoft-windows-on-ec2.html

WS Free Usage Tier now Includes Microsoft Windows on EC2

The AWS Free Usage Tier now allows you to run Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on an EC2 t1.micro instance for up to 750 hours per month. This benefit is open to new AWS customers and to those who are already participating in the Free Usage Tier, and is available in all AWS Regions with the exception of GovCloud. This is an easy way for Windows users to start learning about and enjoying the benefits of cloud computing with AWS.

The micro instances provide a small amount of consistent processing power and the ability to burst to a higher level of usage from time to time. You can use this instance to learn about Amazon EC2, support a development and test environment, build an AWS application, or host a web site (or all of the above). We’ve fine-tuned the micro instances to make them even better at running Microsoft Windows Server.

You can launch your instance from the AWS Management Console:

We have lots of helpful resources to get you started:

Along with 750 instance hours of Windows Server 2008 R2 per month, the Free Usage Tier also provides another 750 instance hours to run Linux (also on a t1.micro), Elastic Load Balancer time and bandwidth, Elastic Block Storage, Amazon S3 Storage, and SimpleDB storage, a bunch of Simple Queue Service and Simple Notification Service requests, and some CloudWatch metrics and alarms (see the AWS Free Usage Tier page for details). We’ve also boosted the amount of EBS storage space offered in the Free Usage Tier to 30GB, and we’ve doubled the I/O requests in the Free Usage Tier, to 2 million.

 

Microsoft works on ad supported desktop programs

3 years ago, in a mock article I speculated what happened if Microsoft followed Google, and gave away Windows/Office for free while showing you ads. Basically whats the value of a single customer for 3-4 years worth of ads.

https://decisionstats.com/2008/02/02/ballmer-yahoo-googles-boo-hoo-2/

Well it seems like Windows 7, and Microsoft Word have  made a quiet move to showing ads OUT of the browser and into the desktop program.

See screnshot on Windows 7, when even a simple Rich text document shows an ad for slidefest/powerpoint. Continue reading “Microsoft works on ad supported desktop programs”

Google Cloud Print -print documents from the internet

Print Jobs just got easier- especially if you prefer one printer, use Google Chrome, and can take 2 minutes to set up your printer to print from anywhere in the world through the internet.

It’s called Google Cloud Print– and it makes my life a lot easier when I travel and need to give to printer at home some documents to print rather than rely on external printers. See screenshots below and check out http://www.google.com/cloudprint/ for more

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PSPP – SPSS 's Open Source Counterpart

A Bold GNU Head
Image via Wikipedia

New Website for Windows Installers for PSPP– try at your own time if you are dedicated to either SPSS or free statistical computing.

http://pspp.awardspace.com/

This page is intended to give a stable root for downloading the PSPP-for-Windows setup from free mirrors.

Highlights of the current PSPP-for-Windows setup
PSPP info:

Current version: Master version = 0.7.6
Release date: See filenames
Information about PSPP: http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp
PSPP Manual: PDF or HTML
(current version will be installed on your PC by the installer package)
Package info:

Windows version: Windows XP and newer
Package Size: 15 Mb
Size on disk: 34 Mb
Technical: MinGW based
Cross-compiled on openSUSE 11.3

Downloads:
There are issues with the latest build. Some users report crashes on their systems on other systems it works fine.

Version Installer for multi-user installation.
Administrator privileges required.
Recommended version.		 Installer for single-user installation.
No administrator privileges required
0.7.6-g38ba1e-blp-build20101116
0.7.5-g805e7e-blp-build20100908
0.7.5-g7803d3-blp-build20100820
0.7.5-g333ac4-blp-build20100727		 PSPP-Master-2010-11-16
PSPP-Master-2010-09-08
PSPP-Master-2010-08-20
PSPP-Master-2010-07-27		 PSPP-Master-single-user-2010-11-16
PSPP-Master-single-user-2010-09-08
PSPP-Master-single-user-2010-08-20
PSPP-Master-single-user-2010-07-27

 

Sources can be found here.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPP

At the user’s choice, statistical output and graphics are done in ASCII, PDF, PostScript or HTML formats. A limited range of statistical graphs can be produced, such as histograms, pie-charts and np-charts.

PSPP can import Gnumeric, OpenDocument and Excel spreadsheets, Postgres databases, comma-separated values– and ASCII-files. It can export files in the SPSS ‘portable’ and ‘system’ file formats and to ASCII files. Some of the libraries used by PSPP can be accessed programmatically; PSPP-Perl provides an interface to the libraries used by PSPP.

and

http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/

A brief list of some of the features of PSPP follows:

  • Supports over 1 billion cases.
  • Supports over 1 billion variables.
  • Syntax and data files are compatible with SPSS.
  • Choice of terminal or graphical user interface.
  • Choice of text, postscript or html output formats.
  • Inter-operates with Gnumeric, OpenOffice.Org and other free software.
  • Easy data import from spreadsheets, text files and database sources.
  • Fast statistical procedures, even on very large data sets.
  • No license fees.
  • No expiration period.
  • No unethical “end user license agreements”.
  • Fully indexed user manual.
  • Free Software; licensed under GPLv3 or later.
  • Cross platform; Runs on many different computers and many different operating systems.

 

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PSPP – SPSS ‘s Open Source Counterpart

A Bold GNU Head
Image via Wikipedia

New Website for Windows Installers for PSPP– try at your own time if you are dedicated to either SPSS or free statistical computing.

http://pspp.awardspace.com/

This page is intended to give a stable root for downloading the PSPP-for-Windows setup from free mirrors.

Highlights of the current PSPP-for-Windows setup
PSPP info:

Current version: Master version = 0.7.6
Release date: See filenames
Information about PSPP: http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp
PSPP Manual: PDF or HTML
(current version will be installed on your PC by the installer package)
Package info:

Windows version: Windows XP and newer
Package Size: 15 Mb
Size on disk: 34 Mb
Technical: MinGW based
Cross-compiled on openSUSE 11.3

Downloads:
There are issues with the latest build. Some users report crashes on their systems on other systems it works fine.

Version Installer for multi-user installation.
Administrator privileges required.
Recommended version.		 Installer for single-user installation.
No administrator privileges required
0.7.6-g38ba1e-blp-build20101116
0.7.5-g805e7e-blp-build20100908
0.7.5-g7803d3-blp-build20100820
0.7.5-g333ac4-blp-build20100727		 PSPP-Master-2010-11-16
PSPP-Master-2010-09-08
PSPP-Master-2010-08-20
PSPP-Master-2010-07-27		 PSPP-Master-single-user-2010-11-16
PSPP-Master-single-user-2010-09-08
PSPP-Master-single-user-2010-08-20
PSPP-Master-single-user-2010-07-27

 

Sources can be found here.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPP

At the user’s choice, statistical output and graphics are done in ASCII, PDF, PostScript or HTML formats. A limited range of statistical graphs can be produced, such as histograms, pie-charts and np-charts.

PSPP can import Gnumeric, OpenDocument and Excel spreadsheets, Postgres databases, comma-separated values– and ASCII-files. It can export files in the SPSS ‘portable’ and ‘system’ file formats and to ASCII files. Some of the libraries used by PSPP can be accessed programmatically; PSPP-Perl provides an interface to the libraries used by PSPP.

and

http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/

A brief list of some of the features of PSPP follows:

  • Supports over 1 billion cases.
  • Supports over 1 billion variables.
  • Syntax and data files are compatible with SPSS.
  • Choice of terminal or graphical user interface.
  • Choice of text, postscript or html output formats.
  • Inter-operates with Gnumeric, OpenOffice.Org and other free software.
  • Easy data import from spreadsheets, text files and database sources.
  • Fast statistical procedures, even on very large data sets.
  • No license fees.
  • No expiration period.
  • No unethical “end user license agreements”.
  • Fully indexed user manual.
  • Free Software; licensed under GPLv3 or later.
  • Cross platform; Runs on many different computers and many different operating systems.

 

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