Cray purchased FPS, it changed the group's direction by making them Cray Research Superservers, Inc., later becoming the Cray Business Systems Division (Cray BSD). The MCP was renamed the Cray APP. The S-MP architecture was not developed further. Instead, it was replaced by the Cray Superserver 6400, (CS6400), which was derived indirectly from a collaboration between Sun Microsystems and Xerox PARC. Acquisition by SGI and Sun Silicon Graphics acquired Cray Research in 1996, and shortly afterward the Cray BSD business unit along with the CS6400 product line was sold to Sun Microsystems for an undisclosed amount (acknowledged later by a Sun executive to be "significantly less than $100 million"). Sun was then able to bring to market the follow-on to the CS6400 which Cray BSD was developing at the time, codenamed Starfire, launching it as the Ultra Enterprise 10000 multiprocessor server. This system was followed by the Sun Fire 15K and Sun Fire 25K. These systems allowed Sun to become a first tier vendor in the large server market. In January 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation. See also Glen Culler Cydrome Multiflow References External links 1986 news about FPS - Daily Journal of Commerce The History of the Development of Parallel Computing Howard Thrailkill FPS Computing: A History of Firsts Gordon Bell. "A Brief History of Supercomputing" Defunct computer hardware companies Defunct companies based in Oregon Beaverton, Oregon Electronics companies established in 1970 Electronics companies disestablished in 1991 Floating point 1970 establishments in Oregon 1991 disestablishments in Oregon Defunct computer companies of the United States