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As someone who is unfamiliar with your product could you maybe explain to me what your company sells? I looked for a while at your website, and it seems like yo

As someone who is unfamiliar with your product could you maybe explain to me what your company sells? I looked for a while at your website, and it seems like you sell server hardware, however, when I go to the products section, it talks of demos etc, which sounds more like you sell cloud hosted systems. I don't see any way to find the prices or order the hardware itself. Very confusing website.

steveklabnik 1y ago
Sure thing! > it seems like you sell server hardware, We do! > which sounds more like you sell cloud hosted systems The server hardware we sell has a cloud-like interface. That is, you don't administer individual computers in the rack, you treat it as one big pool of resources that you can use. We handle the details. I wrote a lengthy comment a few years back that has more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324 I'm happy to elaborate on this or anything else you're curious about. > I don't see any way to find the prices or order the hardware itself. We do not publish pricing, and to place an order, you can contact sales: https://oxide.computer/contact https://oxide.computer/contact
- rcarmo 1y ago
  You forgot the in-depth accountability for every piece of the design down to third-party firmware auditing and vetting - I see that kind of vertical integration of the whole stack (including hubris, but also the tight validation of the hardware) as the key thing :)
  - steveklabnik 1y ago
    It’s really important to some people and irrelevant to others, so I try to suss that out before I get into it. You’re right though!
lbotos 1y ago
they sell you a "cloud in your closet" -- the "apple of enterprise" -- buy their boxes, which run their os with deep integration to the hardware because they make both, and a support contract and you have and end to end solution where Oxide deliver the literal entire stack.

steveklabnik 1y ago

Sure thing! > it seems like you sell server hardware, We do! > which sounds more like you sell cloud hosted systems The server hardware we sell has a cloud-like interface. That is, you don't administer individual computers in the rack, you treat it as one big pool of resources that you can use. We handle the details. I wrote a lengthy comment a few years back that has more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324 I'm happy to elaborate on this or anything else you're curious about. > I don't see any way to find the prices or order the hardware itself. We do not publish pricing, and to place an order, you can contact sales: https://oxide.computer/contact https://oxide.computer/contact

rcarmo 1y ago
You forgot the in-depth accountability for every piece of the design down to third-party firmware auditing and vetting - I see that kind of vertical integration of the whole stack (including hubris, but also the tight validation of the hardware) as the key thing :)
- steveklabnik 1y ago
  It’s really important to some people and irrelevant to others, so I try to suss that out before I get into it. You’re right though!

lbotos 1y ago

they sell you a "cloud in your closet" -- the "apple of enterprise" -- buy their boxes, which run their os with deep integration to the hardware because they make both, and a support contract and you have and end to end solution where Oxide deliver the literal entire stack.