[Info-vax] HPE buys Cray

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sat May 18 10:04:15 EDT 2019


Kerry Main  <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Getting Cray for only $1.3B looks like fire sale, so perhaps Cray was
>hurting financially?

What is left of Cray?  Most of the hardware folks are gone.  The compilers
stuff all got bought by SGI.

>Also, remember that HPE bought SGI a year or two ago, so HPE appears to =
>be
>adopting a renewed focus on the super computer and high end data =
>analysis
>and AI market.

Well, HPE bought the company that had bought SGI (after SGI had bought the
best part of Cray).
--scott

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