[geeks] SGI Sadness

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sat, 09 Jul 2005 @ 22:23 -0400, James Fogg said:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > I just find it sad that a once-great Unix company might end
> > up being flushed and only the IP being kept.  Somewhere along
> > the way SGI "lost it" and never recovered.
> 
> I think that the "somewhere" is when the word Intel showed up in their
> business plan.

No, their moves with Intel had nothing to do with their failures.

SGI made other more important mistakes that were not related to that.
Also, not everything is SGI's fault.  The computer industry as a whole
is more than a little bit screwed up.

SGI is only a symptom of much larger problems.



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