Rackable Systems

Rackable Systems, later known as Silicon Graphics International was the successor company of Silicon Graphics. Due to its abandonment of all "SGI" ideals and only using its name, this wiki henceforth refers to it as Rackable Systems or Rackable for short.

History

Rackable Systems Inc. went public in June 2005, with 6.25 million shares offered at $12 per share.

In 2006, Rackable announced it had signed an agreement to acquire Terrascale Technologies, Inc.

On April 1, 2009, Rackable announced an agreement to acquire Silicon Graphics for $25 million. The purchase, ultimately for $42.5 million, was finalized on May 11, 2009; at the same time, Rackable announced their adoption of "SGI" as their global name and brand. The following week, the company changed their NASDAQ stock ticker symbol from "RACK" to "SGI".

Rackable sold servers and storage continuing from the original Rackable Systems; and servers, storage, visualization and professional services acquired from Silicon Graphics, mostly the Altix UV line.

On August 11, 2016, it was announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise would acquire SGI for $7.75 per share in cash, a transaction valued at approximately $275 million, net of cash and debt. The deal was completed on November 1, 2016.

Criticism of Rackable in the SGI Community

Rackable has been described as "wearing the corpse of SGI", "brutally unhelpful" and more. They refused to provide hobbyist licensing, open source or publish any SGI technology, even obsolete tech, during their time.

This is compounded by Raion's confirmation of them shredding large amounts of documentation.

Unfortunately I doubt we have anything of that vintage here. Back in 2010, a year into my working here at SGI, several staff were called into then CTO Goh's office for a request. Goh was eager to get piles of documents shredded that dated back to the mid 1980s and had been inherited from the old SGI. He advised the staff to carry this out quickly. As such, several hundred pounds of documents of 68k and MIPS era stuff were simply destroyed over a three or four day period.