roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (07/08/87)
My Evans and Sutherland salesperson called me the other day and told me something very interesting. It seems that E&S has bought Tripos Associates, Inc. Tripos marketed Sybyl, a well-known molecular modelling program which runs on both E&S PS-300 series machines and on the Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations. The real interesting part is that E&S will continue to support and market the SGI version of the program! Considering that E&S and SGI are (at least in my mind) each other's primary competition I think that's pretty amazing. I'm not 100% sure I got the story straight, but I think I did. Maybe E&S is looking to buy SGI too? :-) The other thing I was told was that E&S is pushing hard to get more Unix applications up on their hardware. To date, a lot of the best molecular modelling software for PS-300's only runs on VMS which has been a sticking point for us. We think the E&S is a superior graphics box compared to the IRIS, but aren't too happy about having to buy a uVAX/VMS system just to run it (we're strictly a Unix shop so far). -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
coray@nucsrl.UUCP (Elizabeth) (07/10/87)
/ nucsrl:sci.bio / roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) / 4:01 pm Jul 7, 1987 / My Evans and Sutherland salesperson called me the other day and told me something very interesting. It seems that E&S has bought Tripos Associates, Inc. Tripos marketed Sybyl, a well-known molecular modelling program which runs on both E&S PS-300 series machines and on the Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations. The real interesting part is that E&S will continue to support and market the SGI version of the program! Considering that E&S and SGI are (at least in my mind) each other's primary competition I think that's pretty amazing. I'm not 100% sure I got the story straight, but I think I did. Maybe E&S is looking to buy SGI too? :-) The other thing I was told was that E&S is pushing hard to get more Unix applications up on their hardware. To date, a lot of the best molecular modelling software for PS-300's only runs on VMS which has been a sticking point for us. We think the E&S is a superior graphics box compared to the IRIS, but aren't too happy about having to buy a uVAX/VMS system just to run it (we're strictly a Unix shop so far). -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 ----------