58 pointsby depran hour ago6 comments
  • bithavocan hour ago
    (VP of Eng here) I filled out their sales form last year and never heard from them. We're currently spending $900k/year on AWS, and they didn't even acknowledge my request. crazy stuff.
    • Sayrus12 minutes ago
      We had the opposite experience. We contacted them through their form this year and they were happy to discuss with us even when we communicated from the beginning we wouldn't be customer in the short to medium term and even for single rack systems.
    • api4 minutes ago
      Say you are spending $1M. Round up. Or even 0.9M. Their sales might only return inquiries with cloud costs ending in M.
    • ellieh17 minutes ago
      tbf they are probably looking for customers with cloud spend ending in 'm'
    • Alien1Being23 minutes ago
      Logical.

      They probably will be aquihired by someone like Broadcom.

      • boomskats3 minutes ago
        I expect the majority of Oxide's customers are actively trying to escape Broadcom's VMWare hell. Can't see how something like that would make sense.
        • MisterTeaa few seconds ago
          Makes sense for Broadcom.
    • elzbardico18 minutes ago
      If your CIO is not ideologically averse on paying people instead of paying jeff bezos, you can save money even buying dell.
      • api3 minutes ago
        You are 100% correct but you’d be shocked at the mortal terror that “self hosting” inflicts in the minds of even people who should really know better.

        Also forget Dell. Check out DataPacket.com and other metal hosters. You don’t need to physically rack unless you are huge or have special hardware or security needs.

        The cloud industry has done an incredible job at a kind of soft pervasive propaganda that running stuff is “hard.”

    • ahl43 minutes ago
      Hit me up @oxidecomputer.com
  • fishgoesbluban hour ago
    I've seen posts about Oxide for years now, but do they actually ship hardware? I've never seen images, or posts about companies with their new Oxide Thingamajig™
    • throw0101dan hour ago
      The CEO of Shopify tweeted about it at one point:

      * https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1793798092212367669

    • vsgherzian hour ago
      as far as I can tell, yes?

      It seems like Jane street and lawrence national laboratory are two confirmed customers.

      • fishgoesbluban hour ago
        With those two names it makes more since that I haven't seen anything regarding their use. Not exactly Joe Schmoe LLC as customers.
        • mihaelm38 minutes ago
          Joe Schmoe LLC will probably do just fine by sticking to popular clouds. I reckon adopting Oxide Computer would pay off at much larger volumes of traffic, or if you have to do on-prem due to regulatory reasons.

          It would be nice to know more about pricing so the Enthusiast Joe can have a better idea, but it's more a boutique vibe right now.

    • ahl42 minutes ago
      We've shipped kind of a lot of hardware at this point!
  • LennyWhiteJr21 minutes ago
    I will implicitly trust anything Jessie Frazelle works on. Rare combination of taste, skill, and passion.
  • bkolobara14 minutes ago
    They just raised $200M in February and $100M a year ago.
  • mmmwonderasjan hour ago
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