“In a flurry of press releases this morning, SGI said it is
shaking up its business yet again in an effort to find its proper
place in the computing environment of the future. And apparently,
Windows NT does not fit into the picture anymore. The company said
it has reached a ‘preliminary understanding’ with an unnamed
company to share the development and distribution load for its
Visual Workstation NT-based machines, which are all of seven months
old.”
“The remaining 8,000 or so SGI employees will concentrate
their efforts on broadband Internet computing opportunities and
mid-range servers running the Linux operating system. By
narrowing its focus, SGI’s 18-month-old management team finally
seems to have settled on a business model that it likes. At the
same time, however, the narrower focus on mid-level servers and
workstations places SGI dead in the sights of larger players such
as Sun (Nasdaq: SUNW) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP).”