Archipel SA went into liquidation about two months ago, and is about to be bought out by massively parallel computer manufacturer Telmat Informatique SA, Soultz, France. Telmat was given the right to buy the Annecy-le-Vieux, France-based firm last week by a French court. About 15 of Archipel’s 35 staff have already been made redundant since it went into the hands of the liquidators, and more are likely to go as Telmat is only interested in certain areas of its business, like the Volvix parallel Unix operating system, which is based on the Chorus-MIX microkernel, and applications developed for the telecommunications market. Telmat says it has not yet decided whether it will use Volvix on its own machines, although it will be looking at that possibility.
