From JANET.CICARIELLO-COOK@roche.com Wed Jul 30 14:14:28 1997 Received: from gatekeeper.roche.com for JANET.CICARIELLO-COOK@roche.com by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/950822.1) id NAA28346; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:34:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by gatekeeper.roche.com (5.65v3.2/fma-120691); id AA19229; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:32:34 -0400 Received: from rnuc01.nut.roche.com by mailgate.roche.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/20Mar96-0227PM) id AA12770; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:34:23 -0400 Received: from mr.nut.roche.com by rnuc01.nut.roche.com (PMDF V5.0-6 #9043) id <01ILULDXVR40HSZP6Z@rnuc01.nut.roche.com> for chemistry@www.ccl.net; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:33:30 -0500 (EST) Received: with PMDF-MR; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:28:45 -0500 (EST) Mr-Received: by mta RNIS08; Relayed; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:28:45 -0500 Mr-Received: by mta RNUC01; Relayed; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:33:27 -0500 Alternate-Recipient: prohibited Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:28:46 -0500 (EST) From: JANET CICARIELLO-COOK 57165 Subject: RE: Molecular Modeling Hardware To: Comp Chem List Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:28:48 -0500 (EST) Importance: normal Priority: normal Ua-Content-Id: E1790IYL2WJC5 X400-Mts-Identifier: [;54823103707991/767789@RNISD0] A1-Type: MAIL Hop-Count: 2 Hi everyone, In response to Jeff Nauss's question: >>So much of the commerical moelcular modeling software is availble (and in >>many >>cases, exclusively) on Silicon Graphics. Then one reads articles of SGI's >>imminient demise. They latest being >>http://www.businessweek.com/1997/31/b35381.htm. >> >>Anyone have a feel for how the major commerical MM packages are dealing with >>the issue? I suggest you check out the SGI web site. They reported thier first billion dollar fiscal quarter ever. see: http://www.sgi.com/Headlines/1997/July/Q4_results.html While they did (do) have some problems, which seem to be turning around (even the businessweek article admits this), I think "imminent demise" is a bit of an overreaction. Janet ********************************************* * Janet Cicariello-Cook, Ph.D. * * Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc. * * 340 Kingsland St. * * Bldg. 76/3 * * Nutley, NJ 07110 * * ph: (201) 235-7165 * * fax: (201) 235-7292 * * e-mail: janet.cicariello-cook@roche.com * *********************************************