On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Ian Dillon wrote: > Likewise Joe, watching the demise of SGI has been incredibly hard to fathom. > This was a great company with tons of energy/potential and did right by > their employees back in the day. I think this is why so many of us feel for > the company and its current employee base.
Lest we look only through our rose-colored glasses (and I have my own fond memories), we shouldn't forget the bad. I recall many dispirited SGI designers, having just wasted a year of their lives designing a product that was killed just before tape-out, or not put into production because of internal politics. In the mid-1990s SGI was a company that didn't realize that a team that could deliver working systems was rare and precious. A few people here will remember that disaster of SGI trying to run Cray. The culture clash couldn't have been more extreme. -- Donald Becker bec...@scyld.com Penguin Computing / Scyld Software www.penguincomputing.com www.scyld.com Annapolis MD and San Francisco CA _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
