No one got fired for using Intel?

Keith wrote:
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:57:44 +0000, wrote:


On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:21:01 -0500, Keith wrote:


On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:58:52 -0600, Del Cecchi wrote:


"YKhan" wrote in message
legroups.com...

If the new CEO is smart and wants to keep his job, he should very
quickly consider building Opteron servers. The recently fired CEO must
be the third one who stayed loyal to the Intel vision for far too long.


Yousuf Khan


What's the value add that SGI can contribute to an Opteron Server? They
had Numalink or whatever for the big numa Itanium and Mips boxes. I
guess they could put on high end graphics and sell them as workstations.

...and what is it they do? ...and do they have any other real choice?

Yes, they have a choice to try and sell themselves while SGI name
still holds some residual value. The rest of their business probably
has a negative value. Being delisted doesn't help to prop up the
business, either. Too bad - it used to be a big name.
Sic transit...


They have to have *something*, other than a name. Their name is a tad
tarnished these days.

They have a nice building in Chippawa Falls, just down the street from
the Leiney Lodge and Leinenkugel brewery, and the Big Eddie Spring.

I presume there are still people working in that building as well.

del

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