I feel sorry but I was too weak to stop it!

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I am sorry to hear that SGI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today
(Monday 05/08/2006). Unfortunately I found some companies go in their
ways and get their results with no doubt, if you know what they did.
Here I don't want to blame anyone but just make it a record for
myself(I have no SGI stocks), since I loved SGI's creativity in 90's.

Changed from Future MIPS, Future SGI -- changed from Re: Future MIPS

From: steven davis - view profile
Date: Thurs, Apr 25 2002 7:29 am
Email: digitalser...@yahoo.com (steven davis)
Groups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
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I have the same feelings, a series of foolish decision by SGI from
1997. The directors are not the same as before, so their minds are
much different, actually I bet current sales people and managers are
from PC world, so they walk in their original ways, they are blind to
the market of high end, they believe PC will rule the world. They sold
everything valuable, and decided to compete in their weakest area.
If in 1995-1998, SGI just enhance the ability of Indigo2, onyx2,
origin, make it stable, compatible, scalable, and decrease the prices
gradually, SGI will keep original customers, and attract a lot of
newcomers. But they are short sighted, they just publish one box
following another box with no guaranteed services and do not save the
investment of the customers, then customer will certainly switch to
the technology been supported in a long term, while customers in PC
world are scared by the high prices of SGI products(The attitudes of
the customers could be predicted easily in 1995, and a lot of SGI
lovers were shouting in panic about the foolish decisions of SGI at
that time).
It seems that SGI knows the lesson of the disadvantage of fast but
unstable paces, they are making destkop solutions(octane) better. But
currently I think SGI is in a delima, Linux or IRIX continually? The
value of SGI is still in the high end. For example, the stock of SGI
jumps from $0.5 to $3.8 in these several months, only because they got
contracts in the high end. Without that, SGI is nothing.
The best approach right now is to cooperate closely with SUN
microsystems(not necessarily merge), since SUN has stable OS/network
technologies, and the markets of the two companies do not overlap too
much, and the most important is that SUN does not know what to do
right now, SUN is also suffering from the recession, their own
products are affected a lot by the recession of Internet.
Graphics/video related areas are most important to SGI. SGI should
better abandon the part of its PC products, keeps Linux solution as
they planned before, but jump into the hardware market of video and
video games, as Microsoft just did. Those companies who are not strong
in these areas know a lot about the market, but SGI is blind? Mips had
done well in the game market, to sell Mips was really a bad decision.
-steven

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