Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
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Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
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#2Who is the target customer for this?
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#3I kind of want one of these in my home, I wonder what the price range will be.
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#4Who is the target customer for this?
Cantrill has always said it's for people who want Facebook class on-premise infrastructure but don't have a $900B market cap and a hundred engineers designing and building custom boxes.
Oh, and open firmware.
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#5Who is the target customer for this?
This level of integration surely won't come cheap, from what I recall of Server purchasing a target price of ~200-500k per rack would be expected on a TCO of roughly 2x the rack price over 3 years. (Assuming you are buying from Quanta/SuperMicro or other commodity integrator)
It's possible the prices are different now, but you would need customers looking to drop > 1 million dollars in CapEx for the management capabilities they are providing. Possibly non-cloud Fortune-500?
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#6I don't know if I have a use for something like this, but the website aesthetics are just plain awesome.
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#7Who is the target customer for this?
I can see this also being appealing for large orgs with sensitive data they don't want to put in a public cloud.
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#8I kind of want one of these in my home, I wonder what the price range will be.
“2048 x86 cores per rack”
Probably a lot more than any sane person would pay for a home server.
But I won’t stop you from trying! Wouldn’t it be cool to have that plugged into your local network?
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#9This looks interesting (although I'm not in the target market, too small)...
But if I were looking at this, judging from the quality of people they've amassed in their engineering team, is there any chance they won't be acquired in 6 months?
To anyone looking to take a bet on this, what is the answer to "what's your plan for when your stellar team gets acquired?" And what answer will satisfy that buyer?
Update: Adding another question, does this "environment" (where any really great product with great talent in it can be acquired very quickly) have a chilling effect on purchases for products like this?
Hopefully some Oxide people can answer :-)
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#10Who is the target customer for this?
good question. not someone too large to want to pay the per-node margins. not someone too small to want to pay .. not someone who is satisfied with using VMs on a cloud provider. not someone who is selling these as part of a turnkey solution for whatever segment is left.
that said, I do feel persistently sad that we can't fix structural problems because the market is such a gradient descent world.