[rescue] DECstation 5000

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On July 16, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> > >   SGI is almost gone?  Interesting.  To me, they don't look any more
> > > gone than anyone else in this industry.
> > 
> > Look at their cash flow, their share prize, and their employee attrition
> > rate. I guess they must be looking to be bought over. And I do have
> > friends inside SGI.... 
> 
>   Francisco...I like you, I respect you, and I think you're cool.  But
> you're one of the biggest doom-sayers I've ever met.
> 
>   People have been predicting the death of SGI (and Cray, and Apple,
> and...) for as long as they've been predicting the death of 8-bit
> microcontrollers.
> 
>   In other words...I'll believe it when I get an invitation to the
> fire sale.  Not before.
> 

This is not my own opinion. I.e. I have no idea on SGI's actual position,
but rather what friends of mine have told me, and they do work for SGI
(some left for nVidia and other ventures). So I guess I have to take all
with a grain of salt, but since I do not own stock, I do not really care.
Actually as an owner of SGI machines, I want them to keep pushing the
envelope so I can afford some nice fuel machine in a couple of years!