USA Today: IBM Makes Play for ‘Next-Generation Pixar’

“IBM plans to take on Monsters, Inc. The company better known
for banking systems is about to announce a partnership with
Threshold Digital Research Labs, a budding Santa Monica, Calif.,
computer-animation company run by Larry Kasanoff, who produced the
movie Terminator 2…

“The deal also sets in motion a power play for dominance on the
technology side of Hollywood. Early this year, Pixar dumped its
longtime tech supplier Sun Microsystems in favor of Intel-based
computers running the Linux operating system.

“IBM’s system at Threshold will also run Linux, throwing yet
more weight behind Linux’s position in Hollywood, at the expense of
Sun and Microsoft. Threshold used to run on Microsoft’s
Windows…”

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