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It wasn't originally their product. It came with the Sun Microsystems acquisition. Sun themselves acquired Virtualbox close to selling to Oracle. Sun never mone

by obtino 4y ago

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 4y ago
Sun and SGI were once profitable but once Linux gained traction it was over. They had no option to be assimilated by the Borg.
- adfm 4y ago
  Cheap OpenGL hardware, from what I recall.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  Ironically they were contributors to their own downfall.
  - toyg 4y ago
    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 4y ago
      Your're missing their contributions to run Linux on their hardware, back when it wasn't seen as a danger to their bottom line.
- actionfromafar 4y ago
  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.)