[geeks] Re: [rescue] Re: Sad end to SGI Power Challenge XL story

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 09:25 , Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Interesting.  So, whose vector supercomputers are the best nowadays?
> They sure look like a "player" to me.

Cray is limping.  SGI managed to drive away some of their best people, 
and that, coupled with the death of the man his bad self, has turned 
them into an also-ran.  I wish it wasn't so, as I get a stiff one for 
Cray hardware, but I see them as a shadow of what they were. (Their 
booth at SC a few years back ('99) was pitiful.)

> ".  Somebody else
> "still" makes "proprietary" (meaning non-Windows) computers and
> they're "legacy" or "on the way out".  This definitely qualifies.  No
> offense, Pete..

None taken, especially since I work for a company that does *not* make 
windows boxes, and I am a big fan of Apple, who has been in the dead 
pool for more years than not.  I think Cray will eventually go the way 
of Celerity, and FP Systems. (Get bought, this time for real, and 
eaten.  Look, who would've thought DEC would go the way they did?)

That reminds me, I need to get some weenies to roast on the flames of 
the HP/Compaq deal.

-Pete