<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">When corporate trumped engineering, it was only a matter of time.<div>When they told Jim Clark to not come back to port, it was only a matter of time.</div><div><div>When the USSR economic system went into <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; ">conniptions</span>, repeat purchases fell in the USA, and the big company eventually couldn't feed itself.</div><div><div>I don't think the engineers ever pulled the wool over their own eyes.</div></div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/10/attitude.html">http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/10/attitude.html</a></div><div><br></div><div> douglas</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 1, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Ian Dillon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Likewise Joe, watching the demise of SGI has been incredibly hard to fathom.<br>This was a great company with tons of energy/potential and did right by<br>their employees back in the day. I think this is why so many of us feel for<br>the company and its current employee base. <br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org [<a href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org">mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org</a>] On<br>Behalf Of Joe Landman<br>Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:57 AM<br>To: Kilian CAVALOTTI<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org">beowulf@beowulf.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Rackable / SGI<br><br>Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Wednesday 01 April 2009 13:58:22 John Hearns wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><a href="http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/april/rackable">http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/april/rackable</a><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">.html<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Not an April Fools.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Whoa. That, and IBM eating Sun, the market is really shrinking...<br></blockquote><br>Read the note from SGI. This was done as a bankruptcy filing this <br>morning, and not all liabilities are going over. That is, it is an <br>asset purchase. Creditors may still object, and force this to be a <br>chapter 7 filing (sell the thing bit by bit). I had been wondering if <br>they had made their $5M debt service payment on friday, and whether or <br>not their creditors believed them to be in default. The speed of this <br>and its construction, have a feel of a "rush" job ... last minute to <br>stave off a complete shuttering and sale.<br><br>I sympathize with my friends and former co-workers at the company ... <br>this is a whopper of a layoff ... with likely no severance (SGI was ~3x <br>Rackable's size w.r.t. people, and I would bet only a small fraction <br>will follow the asset sale, if Rackable makes them an offer).<br><br>Sad day.<br><br>As for the market shrinking, well ... this does happen. We (Scalable) <br>are happy to help customers out (service/support on existing systems, <br>new clusters/storage), as is Don's company (Penguin), as are other <br>companies here. Some of us are doing well and growing.<br><br>Joe<br><br><br>-- <br>Joseph Landman, Ph.D<br>Founder and CEO<br>Scalable Informatics LLC,<br>email: landman@scalableinformatics.com<br>web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com<br> http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com<br>phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121<br>fax : +1 866 888 3112<br>cell : +1 734 612 4615<br>_______________________________________________<br>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org<br>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit<br>http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org<br>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>