When corporate trumped engineering, it was only a matter of time.
When they told Jim Clark to not come back to port, it was only a
matter of time.
When the USSR economic system went into conniptions, repeat purchases
fell in the USA, and the big company eventually couldn't feed itself.
I don't think the engineers ever pulled the wool over their own eyes.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/10/attitude.html
douglas
On Apr 1, 2009, at 10:00 AM, 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.
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From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-
boun...@beowulf.org] On
Behalf Of Joe Landman
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:57 AM
To: Kilian CAVALOTTI
Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Rackable / SGI
Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 13:58:22 John Hearns wrote:
http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/april/rackable
.html
Not an April Fools.
Whoa. That, and IBM eating Sun, the market is really shrinking...
Read the note from SGI. This was done as a bankruptcy filing this
morning, and not all liabilities are going over. That is, it is an
asset purchase. Creditors may still object, and force this to be a
chapter 7 filing (sell the thing bit by bit). I had been wondering if
they had made their $5M debt service payment on friday, and whether or
not their creditors believed them to be in default. The speed of this
and its construction, have a feel of a "rush" job ... last minute to
stave off a complete shuttering and sale.
I sympathize with my friends and former co-workers at the company ...
this is a whopper of a layoff ... with likely no severance (SGI was
~3x
Rackable's size w.r.t. people, and I would bet only a small fraction
will follow the asset sale, if Rackable makes them an offer).
Sad day.
As for the market shrinking, well ... this does happen. We (Scalable)
are happy to help customers out (service/support on existing systems,
new clusters/storage), as is Don's company (Penguin), as are other
companies here. Some of us are doing well and growing.
Joe
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