Comments on: A note about the Rackable/SGI deal

By: chance

chance — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:55:10 +0000

I certainly hope that this works out well for both companies. In a sliding economic time, anything that will help a company continue to operations can only be seen as a positive. Having family who works for this company, I am excited about the possibility of them finally being able to stop worrying about employment. Rackable should consider moving a lot of the manufacturing to the Wisconsin area, cheaper labor is available and there is a skilled work force there from companies like Cray Research, Celestical and many former SGI employees as well who would welcome the opportunity to work in the tech industry again.

By: RLW

RLW — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:24:43 +0000

Chris A. – Much of the compute side of HPC has been reduced to to bulk PC sales. Vendors like IBM and Dell slug it out over big orders and many of the smaller vendors survive off smaller implementations. This deal with SGI is just the latest bump in a long, unfortunate slide for them.

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By: Sharan

Sharan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:30:39 +0000

I think the point here is not that this is a merger of former high fliers – rather the acquirer views this as a way of getting more customers into their fold and thus increasing customer base/revenue in the subsequent years. Similar to the ‘objective’ of the purported IBM – SUN talks.

By: John West

John West — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:28:21 +0000

FJW – LMAO.

By: Chris A

Chris A — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:59:48 +0000

LNXI, SGIC, RACK… What is with the mergers of the former high fliers? It’s like a B movie with Hollywood has-beens.

By: Chris V

Chris V — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:45:36 +0000

Does anyone have any input in how SGI Federal is linked to all this? Do they still remain? I believe they split a section of SGI off several years ago to make sure that the DOD customers would still be supported if SGI went bust.

http://www.sgi.com/company_info/federal/

By: FJW

FJW — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:04:56 +0000

Wonder if we finally can call the acquisition strategy of the DoD Mod program the harbinger of death to HPC big iron (LNXI, SGI). I can’t help but wonder if Cray Henry will finally get that they are not helping the industry.

FJW