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To: Plissken who wrote (211239)	9/20/2006 8:31:43 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

SGI missed two inflection points in their business, first the move of Nvidia and ATi towards high performance 3D graphics on standard add-in cards and then again the commodisation of workstations with x86 processors, Opteron in particular. SGI could have had all the following: 1) ARM's business. They did spin off MIPS, but did not compete as well as ARM in business model IMO. 2) Could of owned Netscape's business. 3) Could of owned Nvidia's business. 4) Could have chosen Opteron rather than Itanic. What an abysmal history of screwups.