[geeks] SGI Sadness

Sat Jul 9 21:27:15 CDT 2005

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 22:23, James Fogg wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > I just find it sad that a once-great Unix company might end
> > up being flushed and only the IP being kept.  Somewhere along
> > the way SGI "lost it" and never recovered.
> 
> I think that the "somewhere" is when the word Intel showed up in their
> business plan.

I was going to say "Belluzzo" but other people went along with it.  And why they never sold $2000 graphics cards for PCs I don't understand, either.

But I think their biggest mistake was abandoning the low-end.  They had the $5000 Indy at a time when a decent 486/DX2-66 was $2500.  Then they abandoned any sales under what, $15K?  That lost them seats and more importantly lost them volume.

--Patrick