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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. But ..... by koterica · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .....does it run linux?

    In all seriousness, what are the implications of this?

  2. Not a bad day for a big annoucement... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...just a bad day for sites like slashdot to make up stupid news stories all day and pass it off as real news. It's not really all that funny after all these years!

  3. The real world doesn't stop on April 1st! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just because the Slashdot community is unable to find real news that happens on April 1st doesn't mean that there isn't any. The joke tradition is great, but if there isn't any real news, why show up?