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Conventional wisdom holds that SGI's core market has traditionally been Hollywood visual effects studios.

In fact, SGI's largest revenue has always been generated by government and defense applications, energy, and scientific and technical computing.

The rise of cheap yet powerful commodity workstations running Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, and the availability of diverse professional software for them, effectively pushed SGI out of the visual effects industry in all but the most niche markets, as studios adopted newer, cheaper technology.