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To: Jim Davison who wrote (5070)	7/24/1998 4:26:00 AM
From: Edward Smyth	Respond to of 14451

Jim Davison wrote: > 3. 700 jobs will get the axe, mostly from the Cray folks 700 more jobs to go? Or had this been announced previously? >4. Increasingly I am realizing what a dismal mistake it was to >try to blend SGI and Cray, although I favored the idea at the >time, and it still might pay off someday. I suspect Cray will >try to build revenue by introducing a Cray server product, and >that it may be quite successful, although not immediately. I think it will pay off in time. The next generation Origin servers should incorporate technology from Cray. Meanwhile, the new SV1 vector machine looks good, and the T3E continues to sell. The UK academic community is getting a new T3E-1200E with 576 processors, 148 Gbytes of memory and 2 Tbytes of high performance disk. Very nice indeed. Hopefully it will be in place before I finish my PhD. Full details on epcc.ed.ac.uk - this site will be down until late Sunday evening. For anyone interested in Cray stuff in general I recommend going to arsc.edu This is a Cray newsletter produced by ARSC. This particular issue has some info from the recent Cray User Group meeting. Ed

To: Jim Davison who wrote (5070)	7/24/1998 8:23:00 AM
From: dd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Thanks Jim- we appreciate you. dd

To: Jim Davison who wrote (5070)	7/24/1998 1:40:00 PM
From: Eli Lauris	Respond to of 14451

Jim, Thanks for the summary of the conference call. I get the sense that Rick knows what he's doing and how to fix the situation, which as a lot more than I could say for McCracken. The last quarter was a little worse, I think, because the attrition was not as high as they expected, hence the 700-person layoff. On the revenue side, the news are pretty good, particularly the server revenue growth. Later in the year, the NT workstations should kick in. Once the expense structure is adjusted correctly, this should be a very nice, profitable company. BTW, I agree on Cray -- certainly the money could have been better spent elsewhere, but that's water under the bridge.