Yes, But did they switch over entirely? By the article, I'd say no, and for good reason, there are just some things you can do on an SGI that just don't happen elsewhere. I will agree that IRIX is a bit of a pain out of the box, I think that re-compiling my kernel is a pain in OR out of the box... REally, teh companies we're discussing here are private sector, profit based, they have profits to answer for and their motivations are based on the bottom line more so than cooltech. I don't blame them, and as I said, if it works better, I'll be the first in line for hten next movie, but there are some parts of what theya have now that cannot be replaced by what they are going to. I didn't see much about the rendering farms, I saw one snippet about the Origin2k, but that was not made clear if it was a rendering server or not. Most of these companies (at least as it was explained to me by an SGI salesdrone) have contracts with studios that allow them to purchase equipemnt for the project at hand off the projects budget, and they get to keep it in the end of production. They do buy Origin2Ks for file servers sometimes, I think it would actually be a bit of simplification to think that ILM ran off one origin for it's server, that would easily explain why they felt that SGI had no performance, but that wasn't said, I didn't see anything other than price comparisons, and that tells me it's a money motivator, not better tech, or worse, just that they see where they can cut and save, and that's good, they're running their business as they should. I agree with them, they are responsible to their employees and their stockholders (if they have any), so these are good decisions, I'm just stating that I don't htink the reasoning behind these changes is based entirely out of a better technology overtaking something else. I don't see that at all.... mbutler I think Pixar switched to linux also. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2761566,00.html