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Rackable Buying SGI Assets For $25M?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-not-totally-sure-about-this-one dept.

UnanimousCoward was one of many people to submit a story that might be an April Fools day joke, except that I don't think it is. Rackable Systems has announced that it is buying SGI for the bargain basement price of $25M. Time was that there was little cooler than an SGI workstation. And note to Rackable's PR: Either this was a genius joke, or a terrible day to announce huge news. Someone either deserves a promotion or a firing.

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  1. Head hurts parsing this sentence... by Zakabog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Time was that there was little cooler than an SGI workstation."

    My head hurts trying to parse that sentence. Is there some grammatical rule that I don't fully understand or was that just a mistake in the summary?

    I kind of understand it to mean -

    "There was a time when there was little cooler than an SGI workstation."

    Though I could be wrong.

  2. The Natural Rise & Fall of Empires by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Time was that there was little cooler than an SGI workstation.

    Time was that there was little cooler than your company having its own Cray machine.

    Time was that there was little cooler than having the latest Sega game system in your home.

    Time was that there was little cooler than to puts around on a BSA motorcycle in front of your friends.

    Time was that there was little cooler than to be a citizen of Rome ... Wait, I'm sorry, what was the point of this exercise again? To wax nostalgic about the inevitable fall of empires?

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    My work here is dung.
  3. it was the logo wot killed it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It was obviously going to be all downhill for SGI when they replaced their cool cube logo with the useless text logo....