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To: Mathon Dabasir who wrote (4780)	4/27/1998 4:17:00 PM
From: Eli Lauris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

MD, Belluzzo's strategy is to focus SGI on areas where it already dominates and a couple other growth areas such as web serving, data mining and media serving. This is the strategy where you don't try to go up a fortified hill, but go up only unoccupied or poorly defended hills and fortify the hills you already own. Hollywood digital effects is a hill SGI owns to a large extent which as I gather it intends to keep and fortify further with low-end NT boxes. That said, I don't think SGI can control the quality of movies made with its tools. SGI hardware & software is used on practically ALL movies that have special effects, so you get the mandarins as well as lemons. If you're unhappy with SGI's Hollywood connection, you better consider relocating your camp to another place.

To: Mathon Dabasir who wrote (4780)	4/27/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: Alexis Cousein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

>The WORSE PART OF THE MOVIE WAS SGI'S LATEST >-IN YOUR FACE- ATTEMPT TO ADVERTISE THEIR WARES. If I'm not mistaken, SGI marketing can't be blamed for this -- but then, I could be wrong. I.e. I don't think SGI payed anything for this.

To: Mathon Dabasir who wrote (4780)	4/28/1998 9:18:00 AM
From: dd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

<<<<< dd, I just saw the movie "Lost In Space" and got nausea it was so bad...>>>>> Mathon- I haven't seen the movie, but am tempted to go out of curiosity. I have read a post or two (maybe on this thread) that mentioned how B-A-D the movie was and how they regretted that SGI's name was even mentioned in the movie. Evidently you are not alone in your opinion. I agree with you that this is a sly way of advertising, and it is certainly not "free". Too bad that we picked such a bad movie to advertise in. Hopefully our new management will do better, or at least not make the same mistake twice. You at least stirred up a couple of responses to your post. Sometimes I think this thread is as dull as the stock. Life needs a little levity in it and so does this thread. There's an old saying "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". BTW - How does the 3D Reality Engine wristwatch compare to those famous 1,000 dollar jobs that you like so well? ":0) dd