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Posted Thursday 21st June 2007 11:46 GMT
Simon Greenwood

Sun? SGI? Cray? It's 1998 again!

The oldest merger stories going. The Snapple rumour dates back to the late 90s, when it just might have been possible that Sun might have benefitted from a true desktop presence. The current post-Sun incarnation of Cray is a niche supercomputer maker that doesn't have the funds to buy anything, and SGI makes incredible imaging software but has got well out of OS and hardware simply because it was easier for them to port to NT and Linux on Intel than continue developing Irix and their MIPS machines.

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