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[[File:BSC-HP-V-Class.JPG|right|thumb|250px|HP V-Class computer.]]
In 1995, Hewlett-Packard bought Convex. HP sold Convex Exemplar machines under the '''S-Class''' (MP) and '''X-Class''' (CC-NUMA) titles, and later incorporated some of Exemplar's technology into the '''V-Class''' machine, which was released running the HP-UX 11.0 release instead of the SPP-UX version which was sold with the S- and X-Class products.
==Culture==
According to most former employees, Convex was a very fun place at which to work.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} For some time, there were beer parties every Friday,{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} and an annual Convex Beach Party (where a truck load of sand would be dumped on the parking lot to simulate a beach in Richardson, Texas).{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} There was a fitness center and other recreational facilities on-site. Convex had a very clear and compelling mission statement: "The Fastest Computers Possible for Under $1M".
Convex had an unusually thorough{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} interview process, which, for technical positions, included a grilling by a group of engineers. The extensive interview process carried over to other departments as well, where the key people who would be working with the prospective employee each interviewed the candidate, then met in roundtable to discuss whether or not to hire.
Convex lasted longer than most [[minisupercomputer]] companies, and to celebrate this and more so to remind themselves of the difficulties of the market, Convex had a graveyard of former competitor companies on its property.<ref>{{cite web | first = Stephanie Anderson |last=Forest | title = Convex Wants To Be A Full Fledged Heavyweight|date=April 21, 1991|work=Businessweek | url = http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1991-04-21/convex-wants-to-be-a-full-fledged-heavyweight | accessdate = 2009-05-29 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106004030/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1991-04-21/convex-wants-to-be-a-full-fledged-heavyweight |archive-date= 2012-11-06 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
Ex-employees of Convex jokingly refer to themselves as ''ex-cons''. There is a [http://www.ex-convex.org mailing list] of Convex ex-employees, as well as frequent reunions[https://web.archive.org/web/20200313022945/http://convex.com/photos.html].
==Famous People at Convex==
Some famous names in [[computing]] worked at Convex.
* Co-founder '''[[Steve Wallach]]''' is well known for his work at Data General, Convex, [[Convey Computer]] Corporation and other companies.
* '''Brian Berliner''' developer of the current [[Concurrent Versions System]] is an ExCon.
* '''Rob Kolstad''', head of software at Convex, and secretary of [[USENIX]], afterwards became CEO of [[BSDI]] which won the landmark BSDI (& UC-Berkeley) vs. USL UNIX lawsuit which made 4.4BSD-Lite an official freely-redistributable open-source UNIX, i.e. it made Berkeley UNIX open-source software.
* '''[[Tom Christiansen]]''' of [[Perl]] fame worked at Convex in the Technical Assistance Center and then on a project called '''Convex Meta Series''', which was an attempt to create cheap [[Computer cluster|cluster computers]].
* '''[[Dan Connolly (computer scientist)|Dan Connolly]]''' of [[HTML]] and [[W3C]] fame worked at Convex on the documentation tools team.
* '''Harry Foster''', is the Chief Scientist Verification at Siemens EDA, authored 6 functional verification books, and served as the IEEE/ACM 58th [[Design Automation Conference]] General Chair.
* '''Ken Harward''', who became studio director at [[Ritual Entertainment]], also worked on documentation tools at Convex.
* '''Mark Lutz''' author of several [[Python (programming language)|Python programming language]] books, worked at Convex.
* '''Frank Marshall''' who led [[Cisco Systems]] to great success in the 1990s was VP of engineering at Convex during its peak years.
* '''[[Robert Tappan Morris|Robert Morris]]''', famous for both the [[Morris worm]] and as a founding partner of [[Y Combinator]], worked as a summer intern at Convex.
* '''Craig Warner''' is now an R&D Engineer at HP.
* '''Jon Gelsey''' is now CEO at Auth0.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://auth0.com/about | title=About IDaaS Provider Auth0 - the New Way to Solve Identity}}</ref>
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