The 20th anniversary of the usenet post that changed my life

[Google groups link]  I remembered incorrectly that Bob Gruen had sent it, but he was obviously the one I wrote to.  Three years later, I was telecommuting from VT.

We're out of beta we're releasing on time

At the risk of corporate shilling, I'm actually kinda excited to finally be able to talk about the product I've been working on, because we shipped v1.0 at the end of May***.  It's called IBM SPSS Analytic Server, and its purpose is to coordinate the execution of analytic jobs (like, building a neural network to predict loads on an electric utility's network) in a distributed environment (like Hadoop).  The 1.0 version of Analytic Server is integrated with IBM SPSS Modeler 15, an existing data mining workbench, and IBM SPSS Analytic Catalyst 1, which is a totally new thin-client application that automates some exploratory steps in order to jump-start deeper analysis of data.

If interested, you can read more about it at the Analytic Server information center.


*** Yes, yes, I meant to post about it then, but have been swamped by other things.  Also, slacking off on posting this has made this my 500th published post on this blog.  Woo.