On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:06:58PM -0500, Howard White 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.
> 

from the ashes: 

http://www.opensgi.com/

and rackable bought a company a while back called terrascale that had
heavy licenses on the xfs and cxfs code. so it makes sense to sell the
ip that way. 

--timball

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