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[obtino]

It wasn't originally their product. It came with the Sun Microsystems acquisition. Sun themselves acquired Virtualbox close to selling to Oracle. Sun never monetized their products well, hence their demise.

[29athrowaway → obtino]

Sun and SGI were once profitable but once Linux gained traction it was over.

They had no option to be assimilated by the Borg.

[actionfromafar → 29athrowaway]

I recall SGI were eaten more by Windows NT + off the shelf OpenGL graphics card than Linux. (But Linux also, of course. All non display output which was ran on SGI/Irix could be ran cheaper on Linux.)

[pjmlp → 29athrowaway]

Ironically they were contributors to their own downfall.

[toyg → pjmlp]

That was a last-gasp attempt to regain relevancy. It really looked desperate, there was no real business plan behind it and the market could tell.

[pjmlp → toyg]

Your're missing their contributions to run Linux on their hardware, back when it wasn't seen as a danger to their bottom line.

[adfm → 29athrowaway]

Cheap OpenGL hardware, from what I recall.