[ThePythonicCow]

SGI was comprised of 1200 employees as of March 1

When I joined SGI in 1988, it had 1200 employees (or so -- my memory is fuzzy), and most of those ever hired at SGI were still there.

SGI peaked at over 11,000 employees, somewhere in the late 1990's.

When I left SGI last year, it was down to 1800 or so employees. It was an excellent company to work for, especially for high end computer design engineers.

My take is that it's downfall was that it succeeded all too well in the 1990's, attracting greedy upper managers who wanted immediate results and had little long term or consistent understanding of what would be a healthy business model for SGI.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

My take is that it's downfall was that it succeeded all too well in the 1990's, attracting greedy upper managers who wanted immediate results and had little long term or consistent understanding of what would be a healthy business model for SGI.

IOW, management got victory disease, and lost their edge?