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by James Robertson.
Original Post: RIP, SGI
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SGI was just picked up by Rackable Systems for a pittance, marking the end of a once high flying company. I'm sure that picking the itanium as "the future" wasn't the thing that did them in, but I'm also sure that it didn't help much :)