[Info-vax] HPE buys Cray

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Dave Froble
> via Info-vax
> Sent: May 20, 2019 5:00 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] HPE buys Cray
> 
> On 5/18/2019 10:50 AM, Kerry Main wrote:
> 
> > Well, Cray must still have some smarts and/or value add left.
> 
> Kerry, you're talking about HP.  Remember the British company they spend
> something like 9 billion on?
> 

You mean Autonomy who cooked their books and who the US DOJ launched
criminal charges last Nov against their CEO and VP of Finance?

<http://fortune.com/2018/11/30/hewlett-packard-autonomy-doj-lawsuit/> 
Nov 30, 2018 - The Department of Justice filed criminal charges on Friday
against former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, accusing the British executive of
misrepresenting Autonomy's finances in the lead up to the company's $11
billion sale to HP in 2011. Autonomy's then vice president of finance,
Stephen Chamberlain, is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit."

A more recent update: Mar 22, 2019
<https://www.accountingtoday.com/articles/hp-readies-5b-accounting-fraud-tri
al-against-autonomy-founder-mike-lynch>

Having stated this, in the quote you extracted above about me saying Cray
still having some value, I was referring to the article I quoted from the
earlier thread on May 17/19 announcing the HPE takeover of Cray:

"Cray is one of the leading players in supercomputing, with its systems
powering three of the world's top 10 supercomputers. The company just
recently announced an Exascale supercomputer contract for more than $600
million for the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Cray's architecture and interconnect technology are also part of a $500
million, 1 exaFlop supercomputer called Aurora set to arrive in 2021 at
Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago."


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com