On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > SGI was a big deal in its day. Tempus fugit.
Caveat emptor. SGI is entangled in a great many long-term support agreements, and a great many of those are with government agencies. I would imagine .gov is going to take a heavy hand in their bankruptcy proceedings. It's a damn shame they fumbled so completely. IRIX was a hop, skip, and jump away from being better than OS X and many years earlier than Apple got it together. IRIX was one of the best UNIXes I'd ever used until OS X. If they'd have gone with a GNU userland, gussied up the window manager, and adopted commodity hardware, they'd have had a real shot at keeping their workstation market alive and healthy. -- Brandon D. Valentine http://www.brandonvalentine.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
