http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/ Engadget Comments for SGI to sell itself for just $25m, throw huge sadness party http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
SGI produced kick ass high end graphics workstations with equally kick ass (though hard to use) high end graphics applications. The hardware and apps were very expensive and eventually lost out to cheaper PCs and cheaper apps. (In some cases the same apps that were used on the SGI's, but repriced downward for the PC market.)

So...SGI lost out to the PC industry, not Pixar. Pixar would have been a customer of SGI, not a competitor.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
I loved SGI back then...They were the bomb! You could go to an SGI trade show and it was unfreakingbelievable the stuff you would see that you couldn't see anywhere else. Then the ILM guys would take those off the shelf software apps and tweak the hell out of them to get the amazing stuff you saw in movies.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
The studio I worked at had at least 200 of these SGI's. And now, they're worthless...]]>Apr 4th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
SGI is the abbreviation for the name of the company mentioned in the article.

... Take tylenol for any headaches, midol for any cramps.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
I miss that ol' logo - I wonder how much they'd sell its rights for?

OMG RIP SGI]]>Apr 2nd 2009 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
Their doom started the moment they decided to build that O2 and then an "advanced" pc line. I was lucky(?) enough to be in on a couple focus group meetings. Everyone in the room all felt that the big failing point of the O2 was the lack of upgradeable graphics. SGI felt that any real professional wouldn't upgrade the graphics only, but would just replace the whole computer. Er... that worked out for them, heh.

Then a bunch of guys bailed to NVidia (some of the tech guys who were on the SGI graphics team)
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I still want their old logo.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/I share the pain.....I worked on a CG movie for almost 3 years on a crappy O2.
I have a small collection of SGI machines in my garage: a Personal Iris 35TG, an Indigo, Indigo2 and an O2.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
Just make sure you get an R12K or RM5200/RM7000 (yeah, good luck finding a 7000) one.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googleplex .]]>Apr 2nd 2009 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
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Let that be a lesson to all the execs and 'business people': good engineers really run the show. The barometer of the quality of your business decisions is how quickly your engineers file out the door afterward.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
we had them on all our desks during the dotcom years. they were a thing of beauty.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
What the heck is a server builder going to do with SGI's technology?! Hummm, I think Rackable is trying to pull a rabbit out of its hat. GOOD LUCK!?]]>Apr 2nd 2009 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
They were some sweet running macines, and crystal clear LCD monitors gave everyone else a run for their money.

SGI, hopefully your name sticks around a bit longer......]]>Apr 2nd 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
Irix is still my standard in operating systems. Truly sweet. OS X comes the closest as a solid UNIX package with a slick graphical interface ... but Irix seemed slicker. They started my so far 16 year love affair with Unix, and were the reason I installed Linux on my PC in 1997.

SGI, SGI, we hardly knew ye ...]]>Apr 2nd 2009 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB13W3]]>Apr 3rd 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
The 13W3 video connector is common, I believe it was first used by Sun on their workstations. Same connector, but Sun and SGI use different pinouts, I found that out when I tried to use a Sun to PC VGA adapter on the SGI, doesn't work.

As far as I can tell, the downfall of SGI was primarily that PCs eventually caught up. SGI had some fantastic innovations, but the same sort of tech started to show up everywhere else, costs plummeted, and tech matured to the point where inexpensive generic PC hardware could do what was previously only possible with high end workstations. It happens all over, I still remember when flatbed scanners started at around $1200 and there were companies that made only scanners. Eventually the tech had matured and cost plummeted and suddenly the market was flooded with sub-$150 scanners that worked just as well.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 2nd 2009 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
At the point NT was introduced, it paled in comparison to the mature, multi-threaded hardware accelerated desktop that Irix and its media enabled applications provided. SGI's aversion to the initial losses that would have been required to sell their low volume MIPs architecture at Intel prices, or port Irix to Intel, held the door open for Microsoft to gradually emulate their technologies, and attract, (and buy), their developers. In the end, Microsoft's shrewd marketing devoured SGI. The brief and shining period of SGI's enlightened culture innovated at a breathless pace and inspired developers with a fraternity beyond commerce.

SGI left a legacy of influence and their alumni still guide industry leading products from Nvidia, ATI, Tivo and many others. Someone should write a book about their rise and fall.]]>Apr 3rd 2009 12:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 3rd 2009 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 3rd 2009 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/]]>Apr 3rd 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 3rd 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/Apr 3rd 2009 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/sgi-to-sell-itself-for-just-25m-throw-huge-sadness-party/
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