Well, while I agree that it's an industry wide problem, it's kind of obvious why Supermicro has been singled out out of all vendors making enterprise servers wi

Well, while I agree that it's an industry wide problem, it's kind of obvious why Supermicro has been singled out out of all vendors making enterprise servers with BMCs -- Supermicro is the cheapest, no-frill whitebox vendor. I'm pretty sure that other big tech companies like Google have greater control over their hardware, custom design them; most financial clients I've worked with would simply never touch these generic boxes with a 10 foot pole. For lesser enterprise tech companies like Apple whose datacenters are filled with cheap generic Chinese servers they penny-pinch from noname companies like Supermicro, Wiwynn with bare minimal, unstable, insecure mgmt BMC's with little or no control of their own (to save money). I've worked with these BMCs past 10 years off and on; started at a large bank automating deployment of marketdata infrastructure on HP hardware; couldn't believe how unstable and insecure they were and how much security risk they posed. Most recently at my last job, about half the BMCs from Supermicro went lemon in production; and not too long, discovered the AAAA* security bug with ILO4 on slightly older HPEs. HPE's had at least fairly responsive post-sales team and I must say their OOB BMC (ILO) improved a lot over time. SM just sucked so bad that my last employer, who had unwisely standardized on Wiwynn's and Supermicro's to save money, ditched them all for HPE this year.