> 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). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
