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Big Blue to take on Pixar?
spareacct1 writes "USAToday is reporting that IBM is set to announce a strategic partnership with Threshold Digital Research Labs of Santa Monica, CA. TDRL now hopes it has the deep pockets and computing power to take on Pixar as the undisputed leader in CG animated films. TDRL's spartan website is showing off digital stills. Interesting sidebar at the end of the story, both Pixar and TDRL recently dumped Sun and MS, respectively, in favor of Linux."
this is really what linux should used for not desktops. Linux is at its best as a stable relibale fast platform to perform specific tasks. On the desktop, OSX is king among the unixes
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The only reason Pixar is going to Mac OS is because one of their execs is Steve Jobs. I doubt the move would make sense for any other reason.
Mac hardware is so overpriced that I doubt you could set up a G5 cluster with even half the performance of a Linux/Intel/AMD cluster of the same price. And performance is what matters here, not pretty translucent cases or lickable interfaces that Apple always excelled at. Can you set up a cluster of, say, 1000 XServe machines and administer them as easily as Linux boxes?
Actually, it seems like you are very misinformed if you think consumer-grade stuff like Final Cut Pro or Photoshop is used by movie professionals. Making movies takes much more than a simple video editing app. That's what high-end stuff like Maya is for, and that has always run better on IRIX and, more recently, Linux. Apart from Pixar, most shops (like ILM) have standardized on Linux as the OS, both for rendering AND for production work.