With IBM doing all this stuff under one roof, I'm not surprised about the deal at all. I'm sure SGI doesn't like that dell sells x86 boxen instead of them under the deal, but I think they needed market penetration more than a hardware partner.
tack On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Lorin wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/23927.html > > I used to wonder what happened to Cray after they got bought by SGI. I > remember my SFState CS professor telling us that back when he was a > working programmer, Cray had ads with the tagline, 'computes an infinite > loop in 14 seconds' > > Apparently they still make computers as Cray(tm). From this article, it > sounds like they are more of a services company now though. They talk to > some customer, and say OK what do you need to do? Then they build them a > custom supercomputer. Sometimes out of Cray stuff, and sometimes a > cluster of Dell Poweredge servers running RedHat 7.2. > > For some reason it seems weird to me that Cray sells redhat boxes. > > -Lkb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bits mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits > -- ------------------------------------------ "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos" - Homer J. Simpson _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
