"Pixar Animation Studios, which brought the world Monsters Inc and Toy Story, is switching from Sun Microsystems to Intel," reports CNet. In hardware terms, to a blade system with 1,024 Intel 2.8GHz Xeon processors. In software terms, from Sun's Solaris version of Unix to the free GNU/Linux clone of Unix. Rivals such as Industrial Light & Magic (Star Wars) and DreamWorks (Shrek) were switching to Linux/Intel last year, so it is hard to know why Pixar was slow off the mark. Someone should ask Pixar's chief executive officer, Steve Jobs.
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