Comment by JSR_FDED
1 day ago
This was one of the all time biggest strategic mistakes SGI made - for a mere $50 million they enabled their largest competitor to rack up huge wins against them almost overnight. A friend at SUN at the time was telling me how much glee they took in sticking it to SGI with its own machines.
> one of the all time biggest strategic mistakes SGI made
SGI in the Ewald years tripped itself up, then in the Rick Belluzzo years made a cavalcade of avoidable mistakes.
Belluzzo then went on to repeat that at Quantum