Re: [9fans] way OT but shocking none the less

2009-04-07 Thread Eris Discordia 
Not really. Rackable Systems has for long been one of those things that 
were there but you never saw. And SGI's end was coming. When did they 
decommission IRIX? Wasn't it some years ago?


I think Rackable Systems is going to focus on SGI's supercomputing 
background and boost their line with parallel supercomputers. Just wild 
guessing for fun.


--On Monday, April 06, 2009 7:37 AM -0700 Benjamin Huntsman 
bhunts...@mail2.cu-portland.edu wrote:



...SGI... was purchased for just $25M by Rackable Systems


I saw that.  It's a sad day when such an icon of the computer industry
gets bought by some company I've never heard of for a (relatively) piddly
little sum...

[9fans] way OT but shocking none the less

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Simon 
On March 9th SGI  was delisted from NASDAQ and on
April 1st it was purchased for just $25M by Rackable Systems.

Google will tell you more if you want.

-Steve

Re: [9fans] way OT but shocking none the less

2009-04-06 Thread Benjamin Huntsman 
...SGI... was purchased for just $25M by Rackable Systems

I saw that.  It's a sad day when such an icon of the computer industry gets 
bought by some company I've never heard of for a (relatively) piddly little 
sum...

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