Msoft's new Azure Machine Learning cloud data analytics solution is based in a R scripting front end. I think it's certain that many corporate ties will have a buzzwordgasm and be looking to "do something" with all their Big Data.

Get the trendy new thing while it's hot.

I'm currently a vendor at Msoft, and have been using Azure ML a little for the last few months. I've used R years prior to this, but I can see this making ML, and probably more importantly, just some decent data analytics language, part of mainstream IT.

Msoft Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/06/16/microsoft-azure-machine-learning-combines-power-of-comprehensive-machine-learning-with-benefits-of-cloud.aspx