The blog post: > what Oxide is doing is building computers that are suitable for hyperscalers, but selling them, rather than building another public cloud. The

The blog post: > what Oxide is doing is building computers that are suitable for hyperscalers, but selling them, rather than building another public cloud. These computers will have hardware and software designed together to create excellent systems. Their website: > We are 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. A puff piece [1]: > Oxide's mission is to create a server using standard x86 processors from companies like Intel or AMD that strips away a lot of the extraneous software that ships with a mainstream server, giving customers a "clean sheet" designed for their operating system, infrastructure, and application requirements. [...] computers for which the software and hardware were designed in concert tend to deliver better performance and reliability than all-purpose off-the-rack servers [...] Those retail servers are still designed as one-size-fits-all boxes that must accommodate all of the ways a potential customer might use those servers, which means they ship with a lot of extraneous firmware. "What we're cleaning up throughout the bottom of the stack just makes it all run better and [makes it] more debuggable," said Frazelle, the startup's chief product officer. I think i understand what they are offering - hardware that is better for building private clouds on - but not how they plan to deliver it. After all, they aren't making their own CPUs, drives, or RAM, are they? They get to design the motherboard, firmware, and enclosure - anything else? They must think there's enough juice there to be able to outweigh the brand value and economies of scale that Dell, HPE, etc have. [1] https://www.protocol.com/oxide-computer-cloud-server https://www.protocol.com/oxide-computer-cloud-server