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Not sure who any of these people are, or what exactly their “computer company” sells. Do they custom build computers like Falcon Northwest or System76 or someth
by xwdv 7y ago
Not sure who any of these people are, or what exactly their “computer company” sells. Do they custom build computers like Falcon Northwest or System76 or something? People need to improve their skills at conveying information; fast and efficiently.
- pimterry 7y agoThe site homepage (rather than the launch announcement) is a bit clearer about their plan: https://oxide.computer/ https://oxide.computer/ > Hyperscaler infrastructure for the rest of us > Oxide is building a new kind of server. > True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure. They're building servers, for people who run their own compute infrastructure.
- xwdv 7y agoA better title then would be “Oxide Computer to build servers for compute infrastructures.”
- kick 7y agoThat's far less explanatory.
- xwdv 7y agoWhy? It names the company and what they do and what they sell for. The current title conveys 0 useful information. Don’t know who those people are and a “computer company” could be anything.
- tonyarkles 7y agoThe discussions about the title are interesting to me. I have followed both Jessie and Bryan for years, and seeing their names together and "computer company" got me exceptionally excited!
- xwdv 7y agoIf you don’t know those people, the entire title falls flat. Imagine if it was just some random people starting a computer company, which could be damn near anything.
- rrrx3 7y agoPlenty of people do know who they are. Not anyone's fault but your own that you're under-informed.
- hindsightbias 7y agoLike Nutanix?
- kick 7y agoTo copy my earlier comment that I think was posted before you sent this: Cantrill is one of the people responsible for dtrace, and more or less the only Sun-alumni who's not retired or disappeared. He also was the CTO of Joyent. Frazelle was one of the people responsible for Docker. I think Tuck is a finance guy who used to be a sysadmin? And he was COO of Joyent for a while, apparently. --- It seems to be a server company. This is somewhat significant, because one of Cantrill's previous endeavors was at a company famous for making a once-great architecture that got killed by x86, one of the few remaining UNIX server operating systems (that was later effectively killed by Linux), and physical machines. Tuck is from Joyent, which was one of the first companies to really "get" the cloud, and Frazelle was from Docker, which should be modern enough for you to understand why it's significant.
- anoother 7y ago"True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure."
- thedaemon 7y agoI also came here excited about a possible new computer manufacturer along the lines of System76 or Apple. Lo and behold it's yet another "cloud" company, except they are doing on premise "cloud". Please let's stop using the term "cloud" so horribly wrong. I digress.