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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,sci.bio
Subject: E&S buys Tripos, will support SGI software
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Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 17:01:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: phri.2777
Posted: Tue Jul  7 17:01:44 1987
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Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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	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