Chris Andrews points out that in its coverage of IBM's acquisition of SPSS that the New York Times cited R as a noteworthy factor in the business analytics industry:
The broad consolidation wave in business intelligence software, analysts say, will bring increasing price pressure on some segments of the industry as major companies seek to increase their share of the market. And the open-source programming language for data analysis, R, is another source of price pressure on software suppliers.
The New York Times covered R in detail back in January.
New York Times: I.B.M. Will Buy a Maker of Data Analysis Software
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