I agree. I remember Oxide was a balls-to-wall hardcore server "rack" soup to nuts baked by Oxide so they could provide exceptional performance and software stack. This "cloud" thing is new.
I think the core idea hasn't changed (it's generally expected that hardware like this is usually divvied up into VMs), just the branding went from 'hyperscalar for the rest of us' (which is a bit opaque to non-techies), to 'it's cloud, but in a box'.
Yeah, I didn't remember this kind 'branding' message before either...(it was servers?).... but the marketing changed slightly when they hit a milestone 4 months ago....
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Is this a rebrand? I don’t remember it being called a “cloud computer”. (Or why else is this on HN?)
I am... also a bit surprised that it's on HN right now? (We introduced the term when we launched last year.[0][1])
[0] https://oxide.computer/blog/the-cloud-computer
[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/launching-t...
I agree. I remember Oxide was a balls-to-wall hardcore server "rack" soup to nuts baked by Oxide so they could provide exceptional performance and software stack. This "cloud" thing is new.
I think the core idea hasn't changed (it's generally expected that hardware like this is usually divvied up into VMs), just the branding went from 'hyperscalar for the rest of us' (which is a bit opaque to non-techies), to 'it's cloud, but in a box'.
That's correct, yes.
Yeah, I didn't remember this kind 'branding' message before either...(it was servers?).... but the marketing changed slightly when they hit a milestone 4 months ago....
Bunch of discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38023891
Probably makes sense when teams have to sell that kind of buy to their managers.
We are not just buying servers, we are buying 'cloud'.
No they called it that for a while.
Why its on HN? Maybe somebody discovered it for the first time?