Silicon Graphics files for Chap 11 and is sold to Rackable for $25 Million

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Sridhar" == Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> writes:

 Sridhar> CDC was chopped up.  Some of the pieces survive.  They
 Sridhar> switched from high-performance computing to storage sometime
 Sridhar> in the '80s, and that group became Imprimis, which was
 Sridhar> bought out by Seagate at some point. Their business services
 Sridhar> division still exists and is called Ceridian, I believe.
 Sridhar> Their financial services division became Travelers Group (as
 Sridhar> in Travelers Insurance), which is now Citigroup (as in the
 Sridhar> gigantic bank).  (Although the insurance-specific businesses
 Sridhar> were spun back off at some point.  Suitness.)

Some piece of CDC now belongs to British Telecom; before then it was
called Syntegra.  That's where the mainframe software (like NOS) ended
up.  They still have it, and they can still supply it, amazingly.

     paul