Sun even was doing a good job with Niagara but this crisis hurt them.<br>Now IBM will be almost a monopoly in high-end servers.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/1 Prentice Bisbal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prentice@ias.edu">prentice@ias.edu</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:<br>
> On Wednesday 01 April 2009 13:58:22 John Hearns wrote:<br>
>> <a href="http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/april/rackable" target="_blank">http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/april/rackable</a><br>
>> .html<br>
>><br>
>> Not an April Fools.<br>
><br>
> Whoa. That, and IBM eating Sun, the market is really shrinking...<br>
><br>
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Unfortunately, they did it to themselves - both Sun and SGI were<br>
unwilling to change their business models and adapt to becoming<br>
commodity hardware vendors.<br>
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