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Oxide is hiring in the following areas: electrical engineering, security, embedded, control plane + API, internal systems automation, dev tools, and product design. (I work there.) https://oxide.computer/careers
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Not at all; they're building a cool tech stack, but the only thing they sell is super expensive hardware that no individual - and not even that many businesses! - is likely to be able to afford.
So, the only thing really inherent about our price point is that we're selling compute by the rack: as it turns out, a whole rack of server-class CPUs (and its accompanying DRAM, flash, NICs, and switching ASICs) is pretty expensive! But this doesn't mean that it's a luxury good: especially because customers won't need to buy software separately (as one does now for hypervisor, control plane, storage software, etc.),…
I get that Oxide has a lot of ex-Joyent folks, but I can't help but wonder how much the choice of a Solaris-derived OS will hobble adoption, support for devices, etc. In many ways this feels like SmartOS all over again - a killer concept that will be eclipsed by a technically inferior but more tractable (for contributors, for management) solution.
> but I can't help but wonder how much the choice of a Solaris-derived OS will hobble adoption, support for devices, etc. Does it matter? Oxide is building the whole stack - their own hardware with their own firmware to run their own OS with their own virtualization layer. They don't need support for arbitrary devices, because they control the hardware.
I get that Oxide has a lot of ex-Joyent folks, but I can't help but wonder how much the choice of a Solaris-derived OS will hobble adoption, support for devices, etc. In many ways this feels like SmartOS all over again - a killer concept that will be eclipsed by a technically inferior but more tractable (for contributors, for management) solution.
If the Oxide stack is good someone could make a name for themselves by porting it to Linux to get wider hardware support.
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Especially because there isn't one!
Well, on paper:) You, personally, are an amazing marketing department no matter what your official title is; "The Soul of a New Machine", for instance, is brilliant at getting mindshare. To be fair, I'm fairly sure you don't think of what you're doing as marketing, but the only difference I see is that this is much more natural/sincere than 99.99% of similar efforts - you're actually just that passionate and good at…
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> but I can't help but wonder how much the choice of a Solaris-derived OS will hobble adoption, support for devices, etc. Does it matter? Oxide is building the whole stack - their own hardware with their own firmware to run their own OS with their own virtualization layer. They don't need support for arbitrary devices, because they control the hardware.
I really worry about a startup taking a massive bet on their own custom hardware now in 2022. The world was much, much different in December 2019 when Oxide started than it is now. Let's hope the investment cash keeps flowing and the hardware gets to folks that purchased it.
Oxide is hiring in the following areas: electrical engineering, security, embedded, control plane + API, internal systems automation, dev tools, and product design. (I work there.) https://oxide.computer/careers
Curious... if I'm still in the "triage" bucket after 6 weeks should I assume the ship has sailed? I was really hoping to hear back one way or the other!
Is it weird that I'm insanely excited about Oxide as a product, even though I have absolutely no need or use case for it?
They're a tech company that makes actual technology. You're allowed to be excited. Better technology upstream has a habit of floating down the stack in some form or another, even when lawyers make it hard (ZFS was released under a GPL-incompatible license (some people will argue intentionally), yet has influenced over twenty years of filesystem design in the Linux ecosystem for things like btrfs, coincidentally also…
Oracle will likely be very interested in Oxide, but I suspect Bryan Cantrill would do everything in his power to prevent that happening. He's seen the lawn mower in action before and knows not to anthropomorphize it :)
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They're a tech company that makes actual technology. You're allowed to be excited. Better technology upstream has a habit of floating down the stack in some form or another, even when lawyers make it hard (ZFS was released under a GPL-incompatible license (some people will argue intentionally), yet has influenced over twenty years of filesystem design in the Linux ecosystem for things like btrfs, coincidentally also…
That is the really cool thing about them-- they're actually making new computers and the software and firmware to go with them. Everything else "new" seems to be a rehash of the IBM PC (my "server" has an ISA-- ahem-- "LPC" bus... >sigh The same goes with software and firmware. Any "new" systems software the last 10 years seems to be thin management veneers over real technologies like the Linux kernel, KVM and contai…
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That is the really cool thing about them-- they're actually making new computers and the software and firmware to go with them. Everything else "new" seems to be a rehash of the IBM PC (my "server" has an ISA-- ahem-- "LPC" bus... >sigh The same goes with software and firmware. Any "new" systems software the last 10 years seems to be thin management veneers over real technologies like the Linux kernel, KVM and contai…
KVM and containerization are not just "thin management veneers", they enable all sorts of new features.