[obtino]

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]

Sun and SGI were once profitable but once Linux gained traction it was over.

They had no option to be assimilated by the Borg.

[actionfromafar]

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.)

[pjmlp]

Ironically they were contributors to their own downfall.

[adfm]

Cheap OpenGL hardware, from what I recall.