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. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Mark Hahn <<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-14-2008/0004756539&EDATE=" target="_blank">http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-14-2008/0004756539&EDATE=</a><br>
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> For SGI's sake I hope this works out better than the Cray purchase.<br>
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</div>could this be driven entirely by Linux Networx holding some large contracts<br>
with gov labs? I've never seen anything from LN that was drastically<br>
different from what's available through other means. SGI's cluster offerings<br>
are similarly commodity-based.<br>
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