[Info-vax] HPE buys Cray

[Dave Froble]

On 5/20/2019 8:02 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
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>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Dave Froble
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>> 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."


Yeah, I know, but I was pointing out that HP seems to have an affinity 
for lemons, while discarding something valuable, such as VMS.

It will be interesting how the Cray purchase works out.


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