IBM buys SPSS for $1.2 billion

Here’s an interesting development (some more details here).  It looks like the deal has been led by Ambuj Goyal at IBM, who was head of computer science at IBM Research when I managed a team in his empire in the Zurich Research Lab.  A really smart guy, and you can see why the acquisition is attractive to IBM, but it will be interesting to see whether the smart analytics work that is done in IBM Research can find an outlet in SPSS, or will there be resistance to this within SPSS?

Will this make IBM a more serious player in the statistical computing world?  Will SPSS move beyond being a great desktop tool and offer real competition for SAS and R?

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