On Friday (08/12/2016 at 09:33AM -0700), Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 08/12/2016 06:17 AM, Todd Killingsworth wrote: > > > SGI was already destroyed decades ago. With more vision, they could > > have transitioned the business into becoming an Nvidia instead of a > > faceless rack server company. > > But that's really what SGI is/was today--the former Rackable Systems who > inherited the name after purchasing the Chapter 11 remains of SGI back > in 2009, except for some tidbits held by a mystery group called > "Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc.", which is probably the name of some > file in a lawyer's office in New Rochelle. GPH is mostly known for > using old SGI patents to go after the likes of Samsung, Google and Amazon. > > In the 1990s, SGI always seemed to me to be more of a hedge fund > operations, acquiring and then relinquishing MIPS and Cray, picking up > Intergraph and Wavefront. I suspect that releasing MIPS and Cray via > IPOs was a way to raise capital. > > Whatever, the original company and mindset is long gone. No use crying > over spilt milk.
There are some SGI people here in MN that figure, from a severance standpoint, getting laid off from HP is probably better than getting laid off from SGI. So, you know, they have new found optimism. -- Chris Elmquist
