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> "Today we are announcing the general availability of the WORLD'S FIRST commercial cloud computer" (emphasis mine) I'm having a hard time getting past the fi

> "Today we are announcing the general availability of the WORLD'S FIRST commercial cloud computer" (emphasis mine) I'm having a hard time getting past the first sentence of this blog post. Maybe I'm missing the obvious.

paxys 3y ago
Just marketing fluff. It's a rack mounted server. Nothing "world's first" about it.
- mbakke 3y ago
  No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
LoganDark 3y ago
They're selling a rack that hosts an entire virtual cloud. Nobody has done that yet. There have been servers with hypervisors preinstalled, but nothing like this.
- alberth 3y ago
  Oracle, AWS & Azure all have "Cloud at Customer" offerings. And these offerings have existed for years. And from hardware manufacturers, Dell/VCE, Nutanix, and more "hyper-converged" infra has existed. Note: I'm not being a hater. I'm just genuinely confused. --- https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-at-customer/ https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-at-customer/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/ https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/
  - reffaelwallen 3y ago
    maybe its about allowing you to create your own cloud, not using a third party vendor's software? its not a computer you hook up to a cloud, it is its own cloud? i only know about aws outpost tho, so I might be wrong
    - alberth 3y ago
      > "not using a third party vendor's software" Wouldn't you still be using 3rd party vendor software, it'd be Oxide software now?
  - LoganDark 3y ago
    > Oracle, AWS & Azure all have "Cloud at Customer" offerings. AFAIK they manage it for you, as if you're just a colo. Whereas oxide just hands the entire rack + software over, but with no self install of any software stacks required (such as with azure)
    - CyberDildonics 3y ago
      This is literally what people would do long before 'the cloud' was ever a buzzword.
      - LoganDark 3y ago
        Yeah because oxide.computer isn't someone else's machine anymore. It's yours. That's literally why it's so exciting lol
        CyberDildonics 3y ago
        Why would it be exciting for a company to be literally doing what lots of companies have been doing for literally 25 years?
        LoganDark 3y ago
        because they do it better...?
        CyberDildonics 3y ago
        Do what better? Rent out computers connected to the internet? How are they doing it better?

paxys 3y ago

Just marketing fluff. It's a rack mounted server. Nothing "world's first" about it.

mbakke 3y ago
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

LoganDark 3y ago

They're selling a rack that hosts an entire virtual cloud. Nobody has done that yet. There have been servers with hypervisors preinstalled, but nothing like this.

alberth 3y ago
Oracle, AWS & Azure all have "Cloud at Customer" offerings. And these offerings have existed for years. And from hardware manufacturers, Dell/VCE, Nutanix, and more "hyper-converged" infra has existed. Note: I'm not being a hater. I'm just genuinely confused. --- https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-at-customer/ https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-at-customer/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/ https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/
- reffaelwallen 3y ago
  maybe its about allowing you to create your own cloud, not using a third party vendor's software? its not a computer you hook up to a cloud, it is its own cloud? i only know about aws outpost tho, so I might be wrong
  - alberth 3y ago
    > "not using a third party vendor's software" Wouldn't you still be using 3rd party vendor software, it'd be Oxide software now?
- LoganDark 3y ago
  > Oracle, AWS & Azure all have "Cloud at Customer" offerings. AFAIK they manage it for you, as if you're just a colo. Whereas oxide just hands the entire rack + software over, but with no self install of any software stacks required (such as with azure)
  - CyberDildonics 3y ago
    This is literally what people would do long before 'the cloud' was ever a buzzword.
    - LoganDark 3y ago
      Yeah because oxide.computer isn't someone else's machine anymore. It's yours. That's literally why it's so exciting lol
      - CyberDildonics 3y ago
        Why would it be exciting for a company to be literally doing what lots of companies have been doing for literally 25 years?
        LoganDark 3y ago
        because they do it better...?
        CyberDildonics 3y ago
        Do what better? Rent out computers connected to the internet? How are they doing it better?