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Is the Game Finally up for SGI?
Rob writes to mention a Computer Business Review article looking at the bankruptcy of SGI, and whether the company is planning on a comeback. CEO Dennis McKenna is emphatic that the company isn't just looking for an exit strategy, but it's hard to see where they could go from here. From the article: "SGI has more challenges ahead, and I still find it hard to believe that after all of the chances it has had to run a profitable server and visualization business in the past it can miraculously do so now, selling lower-end boxes on even slimmer margins. But I'm hoping that the Chapter 11 has provided the necessary wake-up call for the company to get really lean really fast, because only from a more stable financial footing does it have any hope of fighting its way back onto new technology buyers' wish-lists."
SGI is still in business???
I would use this oppurtunity to buy Irix and use it to build the next windows ala Mac OS X. Just graft a new UI based on the aero code on top and presto...secure os with really memory management, XFS, clustering and more. Legacy apps could run in a virtualization layer and Microsoft would get a solid, tried and true OS that is also proprietary and closed-source. It would be a big job to replicate windows on a UNIX base (especially on the server) but I suspect it wouldn't take as long as Vista has.
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do have a very nice SGI Indigo foot rest however.
Mine's an Octane. In the winter, if it gets cold in the office, I can turn it on and use it as a space heater.