Their lights went out
- Company: Sequent
- Born: 1983
- Died: 1999
- Cause of Death: Unusual accounting practices, which led to its acquisition by IBM
- Founders: 17 engineers and executives from Intel
- Most well-known product(s): Symmetry and NUMA
- Why we miss them: They enabled a lights-out datacenter.
- Lasting image/quote: "We wonder whether part of the reason IBM has taken out Sequent is to prevent it falling to Gateway, Dell or another PC maker looking to get into the enterprise." -William Fellows, Computergram International, 1999