sgi.com — "We want to assure our customers, our employees and our communities that SGI is operating-business as usual," Dennis P. McKenna, the recently appointed, Chairman and CEO of SGI, stated. "Our customers can continue to rely on SGI for its mission-critical products, services, and support."
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wyattx17May 9, 2006
I remember going there my sophomore year (2002) on a field trip, to Silicon Graphics Inc. In Mountain View Cali. It was very interesting to tour this place pretty cool back then. Didn't expect this to happen.
digitaldudMay 9, 2006
Great proprietary software and hardware, horrible business model. What a shame.
beastMay 9, 2006
The CS department at my school just got 8 new Octane 2's. They are sweet.<a class="user" href="http://www.sgi.com/products/remarketed/octane2/">http://www.sgi.com/products/remarketed/octane2/</a>
sagarianMay 9, 2006
Does nobody else remember? Perhaps they fail to mention... that the buildings that the once-great Silicon Graphics occupied in 1996, when they were the height of technological excellence and an employer to which every geek wanna-be aspired...those same buldings are now occupied by Google.
digitaldudMay 9, 2006
They had a lot of trouble transitioning from a high-end graphics company to a general high-end computing company. Dropping the SGI acronym to mean simply the letters "sgi" probably wasn't the greatest start.
Closed AccountMay 9, 2006
I lost more than $10k on this friggin stock. I figured that given all the work they do for governments, defense, supercomputers, etc. that someone out there wouldn't let them go bust.
kuangelevenMay 9, 2006
Sigh -- it's sad to see such a once great company become marginalized to the extent that they have to file Chapter 11. In the years past they released some truly innovative hardware and software that could do things that you couldn't do with anything else. Too bad they couldn't keep the innovation going and adapt to the way things have changed in the industry. Of all things, I think they were hurt most by the accelerated growth of graphics hardware technology that's come about as a result of the gaming industry and the ease of which large scale computing environments can be build out of commodity parts. Sadly, they weren't able to ride those waves and stay competitive. Hopefully they can pull out of this one and bring that type of innovation back to the marketplace.
beastMay 10, 2006
New to us. Sorry.