10 Mar
2020
10 Mar
'20
7:26 p.m.
And if they went that way, it would be quite a big event in the supercomputing world
because HPE now own both of the companies formerly known as SGI and Cray.
Someone on the inside is attempting to explore why this is happening. If I hear anything,
I will report back.
If something positive were to occur, IRIX might be able to be saved too.
Chris
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Chris Elmquist
On Mar 10, 2020, at 8:03 PM, John H. Reinhardt via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
?On 3/10/2020 6:46 PM, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
Having worked for them in also not surprised.
When they absorbed Compaq their culture changed. Significantly for the
worse.
I'd be stunned if they existed in a form other that selling printers and
ink cartridges in 5 years time.
They can't, they have no printers or ink to sell. They already broke the
company up into HP - printers, ink and PC's and HPE - Servers, etc (including OpenVMS
until it was sold or licensed to VSI).
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John H. Reinhardt