Hot off the presses: IBM has just bought SPSS, Inc. According to an article at Yahoo Finance, this is to bolster IBM’s Predictive Analytics capabilities for business.
It remains to be seen what the effect will be on social science researchers (the ones who used SPSS when it was Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). But I can’t help but think it isn’t going to be positive.
It seems the name change to PASW was just the beginning of a slippery slope.
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
I hope they don’t jack up the price!
I fear they will, since it seems they’re pushing the business, not academic market. But of course, SPSS was already going that way.