Always refreshing to see people who actually believe in software freedoms (and not just doing open source cosplay like many big corporations) forge a pathway to big success.
There are many things that suggest free software and the movement for software freedoms might be on its way to a historical footnote. This is absolutely not one of them.
Hey Bryan, one day when you’re very successful market-wise (you and your team have already obviously been massively successful from an engineering standpoint) and aren’t in crash-priority-override mode to get cash flow, please consider a project to build SME stuff that reaps the security and integration benefits of your big enterprise stuff that is affordable for end users like entrepreneurs and home hobbyists, like Ubiqiti does. I’d love a lil’ $5-10k homelab unit, and I bet a number of smaller universities and organizations would go for stuff in the low 5 figure 2-3kW range. Obviously your bread and butter comes from companies that size their orders by number of racks, but if you never go downmarket then thousands of us hackers that love what you’re doing will never get to touch Oxide stuff except at a job in a megacorp.
Isn't Oxide kind of like Oracle now building polished vertically integrated monster machines ?
A bit humorous from that perspective given Cantrills dislike for Larry
Nevertheless cool company and product.
It is always a pleasure to follow up with Oxide on their podcast, their technological decision to keep the Solaris linage alive, all the places across the infrastructure they have been using Go and Rust as well.
Great news for Oxide. I followed their podcasts for a while but they petered out and I haven't heard much about their products/growth for a while. Sounds like it's still viable.
USIT... what a cryptic website! Is it government-related (like In-Q-Tel) or private? Have no idea...
Oxide, at least for an outsider, looks like a company that channels some of the spirit of early Sun Microsystems (I'm aware of the connections of course). I'm quite envious of those who work there - I hope the demands of big money don't crush any of that spirit.
Sadly when I look at their jobs posted I don't see much that would line up with my skillset, but I keep an eye on them just on the offchance.
Isn't it sad we're not able to invest into most new tech companies these days, with private equity taking the lead. I don't blame the companies after seeing what going public entails, but still unfortunate.
Yes. This is a real problem. It started as a result of the Enron collapse. The government over corrected in an effort to keep the public safe from fraud. On the flip side many people with pensions are invested in private markets through their pension funds.
God why do startup sites suck so much?
Why do I need ChatGPT to cut through the marketing speak to understand what they are actually selling?
I literally spent 5 minutes in the site trying to understand before giving up and asking GPT...
There is something so calming and pleasant about a well-structured thesis statement:
> Our thesis was that cloud computing was the future of all computing; that running on-premises would remain (or become!) strategically important for many; that the entire stack — hardware and software — needed to be rethought from first principles to serve this market; and that a large, durable, public company could be built by whomever pulled it off.
Very clear and logical, stating from their first principle world view what the result could be if they succeed.
I'm a Bryan Cantrill fan so I'm glad this is working out, I was extremely skeptical of them at the beginning(on HN too), I think because I've built DCs for many years and was stuck in a mindset that served my use case, I've come around to Oxide. My main concerns originally were 2 fold: "this seems bougie", is there actually a market for this, and, is there a good interoperability story with mix and match. From what I could tell the answers were "yes" and "don't care" - I had thought this wasn't a great answer but it seems I'm wrong. I was chatting with Boris Mann just last week about them and he said "actually John that isn't correct, think of how much quick compute needs to come online and how much discreet compute is going to be required with low management overhead, they're doing just fine and that market will grow" - After that I did some research and pondered on it for a day - I think my friend is right and I am wrong, I think at this point Oxide is going to be a really strong name and I wish them the best of luck.
I'm a fan just because they have such an incredibly good sounding product. like, it has no relevance to me, I'll never use it, but I get a deep sense of satisfaction just reading about how it works.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 71.1 ms ] threadThere are many things that suggest free software and the movement for software freedoms might be on its way to a historical footnote. This is absolutely not one of them.
Hey Bryan, one day when you’re very successful market-wise (you and your team have already obviously been massively successful from an engineering standpoint) and aren’t in crash-priority-override mode to get cash flow, please consider a project to build SME stuff that reaps the security and integration benefits of your big enterprise stuff that is affordable for end users like entrepreneurs and home hobbyists, like Ubiqiti does. I’d love a lil’ $5-10k homelab unit, and I bet a number of smaller universities and organizations would go for stuff in the low 5 figure 2-3kW range. Obviously your bread and butter comes from companies that size their orders by number of racks, but if you never go downmarket then thousands of us hackers that love what you’re doing will never get to touch Oxide stuff except at a job in a megacorp.
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/
Start from RFD 1 ;)
in the midst of everyone making a land grab for GB200s, does anyone have time to evaluate their alternative OS?
>We decided to do something outlandishly simple: take the salary that Steve, Jess, and I were going to pay ourselves, and pay that to everyone. [https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-...]
Does everyone at Oxide have the same equity grant?
It is always a pleasure to follow up with Oxide on their podcast, their technological decision to keep the Solaris linage alive, all the places across the infrastructure they have been using Go and Rust as well.
Plus I predict more companies will exit the cloud once they realize how thick the margins have become or want better guarantees over sovereignty.
USIT... what a cryptic website! Is it government-related (like In-Q-Tel) or private? Have no idea...
$100M is a lot of money investors want to see returned of the total amount raised of almost $200M?
Remember Oxide is VC backed so there must be some strings attached here, is it an IPO or an acquisition for an exit or just staying private?
(random superficial comment: the ascii art + high fidelity ui combination on the oxide landing page is chef's kiss)
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/oxide
Sadly when I look at their jobs posted I don't see much that would line up with my skillset, but I keep an eye on them just on the offchance.
Cool 1999 aesthetics though
Folks seem to be moving toward liquid cooling[4] either to the rack/chassis[5] or even to the chip[6].
[1] https://oxide.computer/blog/how-oxide-cuts-data-center-power...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vVXClXVuzE
[3] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hTJYY_Y1H9Q
[4] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/blackwell-platform-water-effic...
[5] https://datacentremagazine.com/data-centres/top-10-liquid-co...
[6] https://zutacore.com
> Our thesis was that cloud computing was the future of all computing; that running on-premises would remain (or become!) strategically important for many; that the entire stack — hardware and software — needed to be rethought from first principles to serve this market; and that a large, durable, public company could be built by whomever pulled it off.
Very clear and logical, stating from their first principle world view what the result could be if they succeed.