“Desktop Linux may not be a reality just yet, but as far as
Silicon Graphics is concerned, it is going to have to be as the
company is staking its future on it. SGI recently admitted that it
had failed to find a buyer for its Intel-based workstation
business. Fresh on the heels of its announcement of an attempted
sell-off of its Cray supercomputer product line, the company could
really have done without more bad news like this….”
“The newest desktop strategy from SGI is to concentrate on
the provision of Linux-based PCs. The company recognises that
application support is still weak, but are prepared to take the
short term risk. Also SGI intends to open up parts of its
OpenGL graphics code to the Linux community.”