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> It’d be interesting to see how Oxide fares down the road. I have been hearing about Oxide since 2019 [1]. 3 years later, it seems they don't yet have paying

by ayewo 4y ago

> It’d be interesting to see how Oxide fares down the road. I have been hearing about Oxide since 2019 [1]. 3 years later, it seems they don't yet have paying customers that one can read about. And with a tag line like: "Servers as they should be" I'm inclined to ask: "Servers as they should be [by whom?]". Is the demand for such ideal servers driven by engineers/sys admins or by businesses (i.e. businesses who are currently being served poorly by existing options in the market)? Is the demand for such ideal servers enough to make them a sustainable business, especially with the enormous amounts they'll likely be pouring into R&D before they can bring a product to market that lives up to their ideals? 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682360

bcantrill 4y ago
When we started the company, we knew it would be a three year build -- and indeed, our first product is in the final stages of development (i.e. EMC/safety certification). We have been very transparent about our progress along the way[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7] -- and our software is essentially all open source, so you can follow along there as well.[8][9][10] If you are asking "does anyone want a rack-scale computer?" the (short) answer is: yes, they do. The on-prem market has been woefully underserved -- and there are plenty of folks who are sick of Dell/HPE/VMware/Cisco, to say nothing of those who are public cloud borne and wondering if they should perhaps own some of their own compute rather than rent it all. [0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/holistic-boot https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/holistic-bo... [1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-oxide-supply-chain https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-oxide-s... [2] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/bringup-lab-chronicles-a-measurement-two-years-in-the-making https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/bringup-lab... [3] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-from-the-bringup-lab https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-... [4] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/another-lpc55-rom-vulnerability https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/another-lpc... [5] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmatism-of-hubris-2021-12-13 https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmat... [6] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-the-bringup-lab-2021-12-06 https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-... [7] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-sidecar-switch-2021-11-29 https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-sidecar... [8] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron [9] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis [10] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris

by ayewo 4y ago

bcantrill 4y ago

When we started the company, we knew it would be a three year build -- and indeed, our first product is in the final stages of development (i.e. EMC/safety certification). We have been very transparent about our progress along the way[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7] -- and our software is essentially all open source, so you can follow along there as well.[8][9][10] If you are asking "does anyone want a rack-scale computer?" the (short) answer is: yes, they do. The on-prem market has been woefully underserved -- and there are plenty of folks who are sick of Dell/HPE/VMware/Cisco, to say nothing of those who are public cloud borne and wondering if they should perhaps own some of their own compute rather than rent it all. [0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/holistic-boot https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/holistic-bo... [1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-oxide-supply-chain https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-oxide-s... [2] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/bringup-lab-chronicles-a-measurement-two-years-in-the-making https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/bringup-lab... [3] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-from-the-bringup-lab https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-... [4] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/another-lpc55-rom-vulnerability https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/another-lpc... [5] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmatism-of-hubris-2021-12-13 https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmat... [6] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-the-bringup-lab-2021-12-06 https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-... [7] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-sidecar-switch-2021-11-29 https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-sidecar... [8] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron [9] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis [10] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris