SGI is not actually picking up the support contracts from their federal contracts. It would be up to the customer to purchase [extend] the contracts to SGI. I certainly agree with Joe. This is most certainly an acquisition of assets, not a merger. SGI has traditionally been a house of large compute [for one realm or another]. They're probably tired of being underbid on machines from cluster manufacturers. Their answer is, of course, the ICE product. Acquiring LNXI technology [specifically in software] helps SGI to augment this.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-14-2008/0004756539&EDATE= > > > > For SGI's sake I hope this works out better than the Cray purchase. > > could this be driven entirely by Linux Networx holding some large > contracts > with gov labs? I've never seen anything from LN that was drastically > different from what's available through other means. SGI's cluster > offerings > are similarly commodity-based. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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