* [9fans] way OT but shocking none the less
@ 2009-04-06 8:48 Steve Simon
2009-04-06 14:37 ` Benjamin Huntsman
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From: Steve Simon @ 2009-04-06 8:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On March 9th SGI was delisted from NASDAQ and on
April 1st it was purchased for just $25M by Rackable Systems.
Google will tell you more if you want.
-Steve
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* Re: [9fans] way OT but shocking none the less
2009-04-06 8:48 [9fans] way OT but shocking none the less Steve Simon
@ 2009-04-06 14:37 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-04-07 7:21 ` Eris Discordia
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From: Benjamin Huntsman @ 2009-04-06 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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>...SGI... was purchased for just $25M by Rackable Systems
I saw that. It's a sad day when such an icon of the computer industry gets bought by some company I've never heard of for a (relatively) piddly little sum...
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* Re: [9fans] way OT but shocking none the less
2009-04-06 14:37 ` Benjamin Huntsman
@ 2009-04-07 7:21 ` Eris Discordia
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From: Eris Discordia @ 2009-04-07 7:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Not really. Rackable Systems has for long been one of those things that
were there but you never saw. And SGI's end was coming. When did they
decommission IRIX? Wasn't it some years ago?
I think Rackable Systems is going to focus on SGI's supercomputing
background and boost their line with parallel supercomputers. Just wild
guessing for fun.
--On Monday, April 06, 2009 7:37 AM -0700 Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
>> ...SGI... was purchased for just $25M by Rackable Systems
>
> I saw that. It's a sad day when such an icon of the computer industry
> gets bought by some company I've never heard of for a (relatively) piddly
> little sum...
>
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