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feeds.boingboing.net - 4/1/2009
SGI sold to Rackable for $25 Million
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bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/1/2009
Once-Mighty SGI Sold to Rackable for $25 Million
— bits.blogs.nytimes.com — SGI was once one of the fastest-growing companies in America. Now it's just another casualty of Silicon... Valley's creative destruction. (more) Once-Mighty SGI Sold to Rackable for $25 Million

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rackable.com - 4/1/2009
Rackable Systems
— rackable.com — Press Release RACKABLE SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT TO ACQUIRE SILICON GRAPHICS INC. FREMONT, CA and SUNNYVALE, CA., April... 1, 2009 - Rackable Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:RACK), a leading provider of servers and storage products for medium to large-scale data ... (more) Rackable Systems

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gigaom.com - 4/1/2009
Silicon Graphics Sold To Rackable For Peanuts [GigaOM]
— gigaom.com — Earlier this month , Jim Clark, the 65-year-old maverick entrepreneur well known for starting companies such as... Netscape and Healtheon, tied the knot with 28-year-old Australian supermodel Kristy Hinze. The odd coupling mirrors today’s strange ... (more) Silicon Graphics Sold To Rackable For Peanuts [GigaOM]

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