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The letter linked below was sent from SGI to Linux Networx customers, and the InsideTrack secured a copy through its vast network of industry insiders.

The letter, from SGI Global Services VP Bob Pette, outlines what LNXI customers can expect. A few highlights of interest.

First, SGI’s take on what happened

Today SGI announced the purchase of

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Lots of interesting gossip and rumors floating around these days about Linux Networx and something big in the air for them this week.

I’ve been pumping my friends and irritating those I don’t know very well for the past 24 hours trying to find a quorum opinion on exactly what, and so far I don’t …

John Leidel posted earlier today about the Linux Networx diskless system, but an industry insider tipped me off to a little inconsistency. There’s an interesting nugget on the interwebs today about the company hidden in this release.

If you look at the press release for this announcement on the company’s site, you’ll …

The DailyTech has had several posts over the last few days chock full of tidbits from leaked memos and shady sources. Good stuff! I’ve gathered three here so you can amaze and astound your less-informed friends

First up, the DT has a leaked memo with details on the Phenom CPU and motherboard availability.

More details

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Dave Raffo at SearchStorage.com is reporting that BlueArc will hold off on its IPO until sometime in 2008. The NAS vendor filed for its public offering back on September 7.

According to Raffo:

A financial analyst who follows storage said investors “are doing more due diligences on IPOs now,” and said it could hurt BlueArc that the stock prices of storage systems

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The InsideTrack was recently pointed to Nyquist Capital’s blog, and their speculation that Google is building their own big switches.

It is our opinion that Google (GOOG) has designed and deployed home-grown 10GbE switches as part of a secret internal initiative that was launched when it realized commercial options couldn’t meet the cost and power consumption targets required for their

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Reader Paul Adams points the Inside Track to The Register’s Hardware site and news of Intel’s forthcoming 45nm chip, codenamed Diamondville. The news comes from Chinese language documentation posted by hardware manufacturer Asus, who plans to use the chip in a revved version of its ultra mobile Eee PC.

The chip is positioned as a …

An HPC industry insider pointed the Inside Track to an interesting bit of news last night about SGI.

As the San Jose Mercury News reported yesterday (here), shareholder Southpaw Asset Management wants SGI’s board to find a buyer. Southpaw holds approximately 5.3% of SGI’s common stock, and disclosed their letter to SGI’s board …