No one got fired for using Intel?

Silicon Graphics loses CEO, blames Intel
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29405

YKhan wrote:

Silicon Graphics loses CEO, blames Intel
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29405

The whole industry should blame themselves for folding their hands at
the mere announcement of Intel's new "super chip".

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

On 1 Feb 2006 08:21:04 -0800, "YKhan" wrote:

Silicon Graphics loses CEO, blames Intel
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29405

Yeah, but the "drops in govt. orders" will get ya every time.:-)

--
Rgds, George Macdonald

"YKhan" wrote in message
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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.

del

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:50:31 -0600, chrisv wrote:

YKhan wrote:

Silicon Graphics loses CEO, blames Intel
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29405

The whole industry should blame themselves for folding their hands at
the mere announcement of Intel's new "super chip".

You have _no_ idea how close to the truth you are!

--
Keith

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


"YKhan" wrote in message
oups.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?

--
Keith

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
oups.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...

NNN

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
oups.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.

--
Keith

Del Cecchi wrote:
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.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of, they could adapt their
NUMAlink to Opteron. So far, none of the announced Opteron NUMA
solutions have shown up yet. Not Newisys' Horus, nor the Serverworks
chipset that was supposed to have some form of Sun Microsystems IP in
them; in fact, Sun released their Galaxy servers with Nvidia chipsets in
them instead.

Yousuf Khan