4retire, I still don't get why you are so fixated on VDK 2.0 for IBM PVS/SGI mainframe systems? I am sure it's nice for TMMI to have, but they announced that it is not essential for their current business model. I will just assume they know what they are doing, but I guess you can disagree if you want.
Sure, maybe 20 years ago, you had to run the code on mainframe computers cause it supposedly took hours just to compress 10 minutes of video back then. But you realize that a nVidia graphics card you can purchase for a few hundred dollars runs circles around any old 'supercomputer'.
It seems obvious that you got alot of information from somebody outside TMMI about what is going on. But are you sure everything you were told was correct?