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To: Alexis Cousein who wrote (4042)	1/16/1998 10:22:00 AM
From: Justin Banks	Respond to of 14451

<OFF TOPIC> Alexis - (SCO for Compaq; not sure for Intel and the reference compiler). INTC uses SCO as wel, AFIAK. Not sure why, though, IMO, they could get better perf. from Linux.

To: Alexis Cousein who wrote (4042)	1/19/1998 11:46:00 PM
From: Joseph E. Caiazzo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Alex: I read your reply and with all due respect it hasn't changed my opinion. I think Cray was in its death throes when SGI bought it and they have done nothing to revive it. The Japanese now produce massively parallel supercomputers at a far cheaper price than SGI. SGI got lucky in the anti-dumping case once, but they won't get lucky twice. As a general purpose machine Cray is simply too costly, thats why I said SGI's future is only in the limited (albeit huge) graphic intensive field....animation, molecular modeling, design engineering, etc... Very large enterprise computing needs are migrating to service providers like IBM who provide mainframe and all logistices. JEC