Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The end is nigh for high-end workstation manufacturer Silicon Graphics as the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday. It is news that will sadden a lot of people besides the SGI shareholders, creditors and the 1800 employees globally who will be directly affected. SGI is renowned as one the great innovators in the area of computer graphics and a provider of top quality hardware.
SGI had appeared to be in trouble for some time before the latest
announcment. Two months ago, facing declining revenues, the company
made a commitment to cut costs and announced dramatic across the board
job cuts.
However, faced with stiff competition from the big hardware players
plus plummeting prices due to Moore's Law and the commoditisation of
hardware, SGI found itself between a rock and a hard place. Hollywood
studios which once required the superior graphics processing
capabilities of high-end SGI workstations, found that they could
achieve similar effects on much cheaper Intel boxes.
So now the once great computer hardware manufacturer from Silicon
Valley looks like it's going to depart into the history books like
other great manufacturers of high quality hardware such as Digital
Equipment and Tandem. Unfortunately for SGI shareholders though, they
won't receive the benefit of being bought out by another IT player. As
computer hardware becomes increasingly commoditised and margins keep
getting thinner, the question remains: who's next?
David Bass
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