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The Register: SGI Moving to Mysterious Altism Line

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 13, 2006

“SGI has picked an obvious strategy for a company struggling to
stay alive. Frustrate its customers with complete confusion.

“Any dolt could understand last week’s proposals to cut 12 per
cent of SGI’s, shuffle a few executives and keep working on
bringing costs down. Less clear, however, was SGI’s decision to
‘consolidate its compute server and visualization platform’ and to
‘pursue new markets in the enterprise space.”‘That’s because SGI
didn’t back up these vague statements with any firm details…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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