The end of an era... Silicon Graphics

[mindblendeR]

Anyone here remember this company?

SGI delisted, becomes penny stock

Nice little reading here:

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[techs]

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.:brokenheart:

 

[cKGunslinger]

Bummer. Just goes to show that even if you have cool ideas and products, a lack of business savy will put you in the ground every time.

 

[dullard]

I've been predicting their demise for years (search the archives if you must, the posts are there). It is sad for the workers to see the company dwindle so much. But they were just stuck in a business model that people could see was a dead-end. The need for a dozen processor design companies and a dozen video product companies is long gone. The R&D waste having so many companies doing very similar work is just enormous. Simple economics had to win eventually.

 

[Genx87]

Put all their eggs into the Itanic basket and it sunk the basket.

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: dullard
I've been predicting their demise for years (search the archives if you must, the posts are there). It is sad for the workers to see the company dwindle so much. But they were just stuck in a business model that people could see was a dead-end. The need for a dozen processor design companies and a dozen video product companies is long gone. The R&D waste having so many companies doing very similar work is just enormous. Simple economics had to win eventually.

I love that. You've "been predicting their demise for years". You're a veritable prophet now! Hey, I've got a prediction too: George H.W. Bush is going to die. And when he does, just remember that you heard it here first!

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: kogase
Hey, I've got a prediction too: George H.W. Bush is going to die!

You forgot to answer these: when and why. Car accident? Disease? Pretzel? All companies either are bought or go out of business. That isn't a prediction. A prediction is why they will be bought or go out of business.

 

[Mickey Eye]

Damn, I loved my old Indi. Good times.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: dullard
I've been predicting their demise for years (search the archives if you must, the posts are there). It is sad for the workers to see the company dwindle so much. But they were just stuck in a business model that people could see was a dead-end. The need for a dozen processor design companies and a dozen video product companies is long gone. The R&D waste having so many companies doing very similar work is just enormous. Simple economics had to win eventually.

I love that. You've "been predicting their demise for years". You're a veritable prophet now!

Hey, I've got a prediction too: George H.W. Bush is going to die. And when he does, just remember that you heard it here first!

I knew this company was doomed as well way back in 1997.

I used their products back when I was designing Modems at Hayes and saw it was a similiar company as far as the way the SGI execs ran the company.

 

[Titan]

Another pioneer gone the way of 3dfx.

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: kogase
Hey, I've got a prediction too: George H.W. Bush is going to die!

You forgot to answer these: when and why. Car accident? Disease? Pretzel? All companies either are bought or go out of business. That isn't a prediction. A prediction is why they will be bought or go out of business.

Okay. George H.W. Bush is going to die because he's human.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: kogase
Okay. George H.W. Bush is going to die because he's human.

Keep trying. I have time.

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: kogase
Okay. George H.W. Bush is going to die because he's human.

Keep trying. I have time.

Okay. George H.W. Bush is going to die because he's human.

predict: foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: kogase
Okay. George H.W. Bush is going to die because he's human.

predict: foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason

Stilll, you predicted that he was going to die. Anyone could do that. Everyone knows that humans die. That is completely unrelated to what I said above. I said SGI was an unnessary company, has a bad business model, has management that is unwilling to adapt, who's products are inferior and overpriced, etc. Thus SGI will die a quick death to be won out by Intel, AMD, ATI, and nVidia. Many posters disagreed, saying that SGI will live forever based on its high-end graphics, great employees, and quality parts. Look what happened in just 3 years since I joined...

That is a world away from predicting that the sun will rise tomorrow.

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: kogase
Okay. George H.W. Bush is going to die because he's human.

predict: foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason

Stilll, you predicted that he was going to die. Anyone could do that. Everyone knows that humans die. That is completely unrelated to what I said above. I said SGI was an unnessary company, has a bad business model, has management that is unwilling to adapt, who's products are inferior and overpriced, etc. Thus SGI will die a quick death to be won out by Intel, AMD, ATI, and nVidia. Many posters disagreed, saying that SGI will live forever based on its high-end graphics, great employees, and quality parts. Look what happened in just 3 years since I joined...

That is a world away from predicting that the sun will rise tomorrow.

Okay, I admit defeat. I was trying to make a little joke, really.

 

[zephyrprime]

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: dullard
I've been predicting their demise for years (search the archives if you must, the posts are there). It is sad for the workers to see the company dwindle so much. But they were just stuck in a business model that people could see was a dead-end. The need for a dozen processor design companies and a dozen video product companies is long gone. The R&D waste having so many companies doing very similar work is just enormous. Simple economics had to win eventually.

I love that. You've "been predicting their demise for years". You're a veritable prophet now! Hey, I've got a prediction too: George H.W. Bush is going to die. And when he does, just remember that you heard it here first!

A ton of people have been predicting this companies demise for years so dullard's claim is by no means outlandish.

 

[Future Shock]

{sniff}...{sniff}

I remember building some early datawarehouses on SGI Onyx boxes (if I remember correctly)...16 processors, each slower than your current desktop - but we thought that was fast back then.

They were a pioneer, and they deserved a better end...so much of what we take for granted now (really dynamic 3D graphics and user interfaces, CGI, etc.) were pioneered by SGI. Their workstations were the tools that a whole generation of other technology was designed upon. And they made some of the very best (at the time) parallel SMP machines for large number crunching and data warehousing.

Future Shock