[cmdrk]

> too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers

You and me both. They're doing neat stuff, but I wonder how many other potential customers feel that way too.

What is Oxide's market? It feels a bit like advanced alien technology that is ultimately a little too weird and expensive for most enterprises to adopt.

[sergiotapia]

I always thought a company like Railway would be an Oxide customer. But Railway is building their own servers in their own datacenters. So I am really curious who is small enough to buy Oxide, but large enough to need Oxide?

[kjellsbells]

The same sorts of customers that SGI used to sell to in the pre-cloud era. DoD. Oil and gas. Finance.

People with deep pockets and good reasons to want to keep certain parts of their infra very close to home. Also the kind of people that expect very highly skilled people to show up and get their in-house app running.

(I was an SGI HPC customer once. I still miss the old SGI. Sigh.)

[avhception]

Maybe DigitalOcean?

[UltraSane]

how does it compare to Nutanix?

[abrookewood]

Of topic, but where the hell did Nutanix come from? I've never heard of them until recently and all of a sudden, they are being marketed as a serious competitor to VMware etc.

[avhception]

Is that what DO is using at the moment? Never heard about it