Re: The future of Performer

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:13:13 -0700

Joseph R. Spann wrote:
>
> > FSG won't be around until for a while yet so you'd be better stickin
> > with Performer for now. You'll be able to go NT with FSG after a port
> > but you may have to implement some more stuff of your own or lose ASD
> > and texture paging.
> >
> > Performer with ASD is still supported on our systems, including O2
> > and OCTANE.
> >
> > Cheers,Angus.
> >
>
> With Michael Jones departure it's not clear to me how committed
> the "new" SGI is to Performer. Who all has left the Performer team and
> are they being replaced?

The notion that Michael Jones was the source of SGIs commitment
to Visual Simulation is ridiculous. We have people working on
Performer both for maintenance and development of new features
for subsequent releases although the names change and some of
the more familiar names (like Sharon Clay) are actively involved
with new API development like Fahrenheit to make sure they are
suitable for Vis Sim & performance oriented applications in the
long term.
In addition to the development team we have many others in
applied engineering, hardware design and marketing who are
dedicated to the vis sim market (or modeling, simulation
and imaging as we now like to call it).

SGI even has some new ideas for success in this market which
we are aggressively implementing but these can't be discussed
here.

We're very committed to Vis Sim and the many thousands of
customers using our systems for Vis Sim. This is still a
huge portion of our business, particularly for high end
graphics systems. Michael Jones will be missed because of
this, but our commitment continues.

Anyway, back to work, I have
_Visual_Simulation_ work to do ;-)

Cheers,Angus.

-- 
"Only the mediocre are always at their best." -- Jean Giraudoux 


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