Not the same company. It was a german(?) conglomerate I have never heard of. I
think Amerada Hess may actually be a subsidiary of that company though. Wish I
could remember the name.
Conoco probably has done it to reduce costs to compete, we'll probably see all
the other major players do the same thing over time. That's the beauty of a
stable powerful cheap to build and upgrade Beowolf supercomputer.

IMHO
Brian

  On Thu, 31 Aug 2000,
you wrote: > Is this the same company that got press last year for searching for
oil w/ > Linux Beowulf cluster? >  > -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 1:23 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: kclug - Can Linux make gas prices go down??
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