> According to the Wall Street Journal (not prone to April foolery),
> Silicon Graphics is filing its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy in three
> years and shall sell most of what is left to Rackable Systems Inc. (a
> company that I, frankly, had never heard of).  I'd post the link to the
> article but WSJ online is a paid subscription site.

http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/april/rackable.html

> SGI was a big deal in its day.  Tempus fugit.

SGI died after all their engineers ran away to 3dfx many years ago,
which was bought by nvidia I think. Since then they've been limping
along, we all knew this day would come.

Look for half width 1U itanic atlix systems in the future (if you can
afford it).

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