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> We’re really excited to have the first commercial cloud computer — and for it to be generally available! If you yourself are interested, we look forward to it
by lopkeny12ko 3y ago
> We’re really excited to have the first commercial cloud computer — and for it to be generally available! If you yourself are interested, we look forward to it making its first impression on you — reach out to us!
Can we please stop with the "the only way to get our pricing is by booking a sales call with us." This is a 100% surefire way for me to never pay for your product, and instead go to competitors who provide straightforward, no-nonsense pricing on the website.
This is ironic given the amount of self-praise they give themselves in this article about how much they care about shipping something you can buy once instead of renting from the traditional cloud. Great, so then tell me how much it costs...
- bionsystem 3y agoIf you think you pay a fair price buying racks of servers from dell or hp by clicking buttons on their website, you are missing out. Purchase teams in my first company buying all sorts of hardware for our datacenters would spend their days negotiating and the end price was nowhere near the price listed online.
- paxys 3y agoTheir pricing starts at $500K (but realistically will be $1-2M per order at a minimum). This is not intended for people who browse their website, click "buy" and fill in their credit card info. If you don't want to talk to a sales rep you were never their target customer, and I'm sure they aren't sweating the hypothetical lost sale.
- rwmj 3y agoI still don't get why they can't put a price on the website.
- layer8 3y agoIt gives them more flexibility and reduces competition. It’s quite common in B2B, for products/services in that pricing range.
- lopkeny12ko 3y agoHow in the world is reducing competition a good thing?
- layer8 3y agoMaking it harder to compete with them is a good thing for Oxide, obviously, and therefore why it provides negative incentive for them to publicly advertise pricing.
- omarfarooq 3y agoIt's not rocket computer science to spin up a pseudo-consulting entity [that works with larger enterprises] to get on sales call for competitive intelligence.
- layer8 3y agoIt’s still harder, and you’ll only get a single price point at a time, which also might change three months later.
- paxys 3y agoWhy would they? What advantage do they get from it?
- cozzyd 3y agoPresumably everybody's quote is going to be a bit different depending on various factors...
- layer8 3y agoI wonder how much the premium is over traditional server hardware with the same capabilities. You save some integration work and need less know-how, but it’d be interesting to compare.
- carbotaniuman 3y agoTheir entire point is to be different then that - if you want servers just go to HPE and spec out some servers. (Which really does beyond small scale, but at the rack level it's unheard of)