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SGI Name Change

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the very-fleetwood-mac dept.

TurboDog sennt us a link to an article that suggests that SGI will change its name on wed. I'm waiting for word from my SGI contacts, but so far this is just a rumor. Update: 04/12 05:44 by CT : chrisd noted that their signs are covered up on shoreline... Update: 04/12 08:29 by CT : a few folks have wrote in to say that Silicon Graphic's new name will be.... SGI. Bummer.

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  1. SGI as a Company by Edge · · Score: 2

    I, for one, would like to see SGI gain back some of it's now lost market share. SGI used to be a kick ass, progregressive company with state-of-the-art graphics systems. They still are to some extent, but have lost some of the shimmer associated with the Silicon Graphics name.

    I'm happy to see their new Intel systems. If you have looked at the specs, you can see they are not your off-the-shelf P-II systems. They are completely custom from the ground up. SGI is just trying to stay competitive. When have you been able to get this type of hardware and support for such a low price? SGI's RxK workstations cost many more times as much as the new Intel boxen.

    People need to give SGI a break, wait and see how things pan out for them, and see how their new Intel systems perform before being so critical. I'm certainly interested.

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  2. How About: Cube made of an endless pipe, inc. by craw · · Score: 2

    I believe it's suppose to be an endles pipe-looking thingy!:-) The problem is that you view it in static 2-D. At least since I 1st worked on a Personal Iris about 10 yrs ago, SGI has had a demo program that displayed the pipes. By moving the mouse with one of the button pressed, you could make that thing rotate in real-time while it did the rendering (lighted polygons). Not so impressive today, but back then it was pretty slick.

    I used to view the SGI pipes as sort of a 3-D version of the Sun logo. I don't know if SGI had this in mind, but to me it seemed like a way to differentiate between the two companies.

  3. Announced: New name is SGI by crow · · Score: 2

    So they're changing the name from Silicon Graphics, Inc. to SGI. From now on, the initials officially don't mean anything.

    Big deal.

  4. Name Change? by Arandir · · Score: 2

    If they're changing their name, then how come they've got painters putting up their new "sgi" logo right now?

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  5. Saw the new logo in use today by Gid1 · · Score: 2

    Hmmm.. have you noticed that a lot of the product shots on the website have had the new logo hastily retouched on? I think their GD department need a few lessons in quality retouching. =)

    _S_ervers, _G_raphic workstations, and _I_nsights? Pah. No sign of the wireframe cube, though. =(

  6. Ummm... Duh! by torment · · Score: 2

    The new logo was posted in the quickies a while ago... Here it is...

    http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+ PEND+3+950865+0+-1+-1+F+1+2+1+MS%2fSGI#Cgi Bottom

    I tried to put it in a real link but the Slash parser for some reason put a space after the "S" in "SGI"... Hmmm

  7. Name Change? This has happened before...many times by IntlHarvester · · Score: 3


    I think AT&T changed their name because the Wall Street JOurnal and others kept referring to them as "American Telephone", and they didn't like the confusing press.

    3M still makes Mining products, and is still Minnesota Mining and Manufaturing on paper.
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  8. Help! by Anonymous+Shepherd · · Score: 3

    If anyone's been successfully able to link and read the article, since it's /., I'd much appreciated if you could respond and tell us all what the speculation is?

    I believe it's more a logo change than a name change, but again, I can't read the article...

    Thanks much!
    AS

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