[geeks] H-P gets Dreamworks Contract

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:09:42PM +0000, wlewis at mailbag.com wrote:
> Interesting that they are changing to HP from SGI...
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Hewlett-Packard-Dreamworks.html

They are less than clear in that article when they say that dreamworks, who
created Shrek, is switching to HPs.  The confusion comes from the fact that 
there are two animation departments.  One is dreamworks animation, the other
is PDI.  So, which is switching to HPs?  It has been known for quite some time
that Dreamworks animation has been buying HP linux machines to replace dual
head octanes.  However, this is not the department that created Shrek.  This
is the department that worked on projects like the Road to El Dorado.

If PDI is switching to linux for the workstations, I'd be kinda surprised, but
HPs make more sense than anything else in the linux world (due to the fact that
you can use FX graphics under the HP Xserver rather than whatever crap under
XFree).


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Joshua D. Boyd