Is the Game Finally up for SGI?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 18, 2006 @04:49AM from the riddle-me-this dept.

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."

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Altrix / SGI by SirStanley · 2006-07-18 05:09 · Score: 4, Interesting

They did just break a memory bandwidth record yesterday.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060717/sfm024.html?.v= 55

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Ahhh ... but their stuff Just Works by Toon+Moene · 2006-07-18 05:20 · Score: 5, Interesting

We (The Dutch Weather Service) bought an Altix in April.

Their hardware rocks. The software - though complex, on three racks using a common file system - works.

I never believed in Itaniums, but for our code (heavy vectorizable, large memory models) they fly.

In short, if SGI collapses, in our market the loss will be quite noticeable.