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Rackable Systems acquires SGIRackable Systems acquires SGIPosted Apr 1, 2009 22:19 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Rackable Systems acquires SGI by ajross Parent article: Rackable Systems acquires SGI
Quite so. One of the greats has passed away, and for shockingly little. I
knew Linux had eaten it alive, but I didn't realise how much of it was gone.
(My first exposure to Unix was SGI Indigos. Those were wonderful machines.
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Rackable Systems acquires SGI Posted Apr 1, 2009 23:55 UTC (Wed) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link]
It might be an April 1st prank, so be careful. But if SCO has gone, then it was (a) buying Cray and (b) selling Windows clusters that killed it.
Rackable Systems acquires SGI Posted Apr 2, 2009 1:39 UTC (Thu) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]
It was my understanding from last looking at their financials that the sales through the CRAY division were the only thing keeping SGI alive. They got cray for pennies (5million?) and turned around and started building huge multiprocessor machines using their in house MIPS chips. Actually made a number of high profile sales in the tens of millions of dollars range.
Rackable Systems acquires SGI Posted Apr 2, 2009 0:27 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
Curiously, it has been SGI doing much of the scalability work that is beginning to enable Linux to run usefully on machines with hundreds of processors, even if on SGI they are Itanics.
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