Re: Announcing Project Mongoose: IRIS Performer for Linux

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William Sherman -Visualization (wsherman++at++ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 17:02:48 -0500 (CDT)

> Performers,
>
> Yesterday, SGI announced that work is underway to make IRIS Performer
> available for the Linux platform. The project (codenamed 'Mongoose')
> is based on the existing IRIS Performer API and targeted for release
> before the end of 1999. Results are already _very_ promising.

Even though it's the weekend, I'm surprised there hasn't been any
(public) responses to this yet. So let me be the first to say:
        "Yay SGI!"

> We anticipate you'll have many questions about availability,
> platforms, compatability, distribution, beta copies, etc -- we'll
> announce more details during the Friends of Performer meeting at
> SIGGRAPH.

While I'm somewhat surprised you were able to get the hardware and
sales folks to go along, maybe this could be a trend.

I was just in a discussion the other day where we were hoping for
a Linux (or better yet open-source) version of Showcase.
  
> Allan

        Bill

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