SGI Carves New Grave for Itself

from the that's-the-best-they-can-do? dept

mchao writes "So SGI's latest strategy to reinvent itself is to go with... you guessed it, Linux: the OS du jour. Would someone just buy this company already?" I used to think SGI was a good acquisition target, but now I'm not so sure any more. They used to have a great brand, but that has suffered tremendously.

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    Joe NoOne, Feb 2nd, 2000 @ 12:02pm

    This has been their strategy for a year now - that and making NT boxes. I thought IRIX was great, but to be fair it was hard to get ports of commercial software - let alone support. I think they shot themselves when they sold off the MIPS processor division....

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