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Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by zdp7 »

zozbot234 wrote: post #108
ryukoposting wrote: post #100

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I was thinking this, too. Here's an even crazier thought: don't even make it rack mount. Make it NUC-sized. Two PB&Js stacked on top of each other, that's the form factor. EC2 except it lives under the couch.

Their engineered power and cooling solutions are all for rack-scaled hardware, doing a NUC wouldn't make sense. Now a silent and efficiently cooled studio-sized rack with enough hardware (including AMD GPUs) for reasonably quick AI inference with the latest local models, that's something that they could do and be quite popular.

Framework desktop mainboards 128GB version. They even show a mini rack with 4 of them.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by zozbot234 »

p_l wrote: post #268
zozbot234 wrote: post #263

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Surely vmware licenses are more easily replaced via Proxmox? Why would you care about Oxide, which is a hardware vendor?

Proxmox is fine if your vmware deployment was quite small. Single oxide rack at max density is going to similar values as official scaling sizes for proxmox, and very much isn't limit of what we did with vsphere. And Oxide sells a complete hardware + software solution, including virtualization and SDN - essentially it's a physical equivalent of up to 32 node virtualization cluster per rack, with builtin SDN and SD-SA…

Is this about limits to what the Proxmox folks will officially provide support services for, or perhaps what can be comfortably managed in the Web UI? These are very valid concerns either way, but the Proxmox VE software itself does provide a comprehensive API and that should scale quite a bit higher.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by zozbot234 »

zdp7 wrote: post #271
zozbot234 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their engineered power and cooling solutions are all for rack-scaled hardware, doing a NUC wouldn't make sense. Now a silent and efficiently cooled studio-sized rack with enough hardware (including AMD GPUs) for reasonably quick AI inference with the latest local models, that's something that they could do and be quite popular.

Framework desktop mainboards 128GB version. They even show a mini rack with 4 of them.

That's mini ITX hardware, not really rack-sized in the sense of a common studio rack.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by [deleted] »

robinhood wrote: post #196
999900000999 wrote: post #67

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I actually did apply, The mere application takes hours upon hours, and for what a generic rejection email. This isn't the worst though, I recently went through an interview with another startup company, and after six interviews and a take-home project I found myself getting the same generic rejection. The CEO went out of his way to tell me he didn't like my resume since I've had to hop around a little bit to stay emp…

So basically you wanted to have it easy - joining a company with a certain prestige and be over the recruitment process in 30 minutes or less.

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Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by UltraSane »

cmdrk wrote: post #226
KenoFischer wrote: post #85

Congratulations to the Oxide team! It's a tough market out there :)! I'm still personally frustrated that I don't get to play with the hardware (too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers), but I'm excited to see that they're successful and hopefully they'll come around to my use case eventually :). In the meantime, I appreciate that they're building largely i…

> 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.

how does it compare to Nutanix?

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by nickpeterson »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #267

I say this every time Oxide comes up, and I know that I will never get my wish, but if they ever ventured into the "homelab" market with smaller products, they can have all my money .

I’m sure it wouldn’t be profitable for them, but I feel like having some vendor sell a ‘reference machine’ that they know could run the core OS well would be a good in between. Someone like Framework selling a workstation looking desktop in a specific reference config couldn’t be too bad. Feels like just enough to get a community started. Most tasks really don’t need bleeding edge hardware anymore, the thing could go years without hardware changes.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by UltraSane »

bsaul wrote: post #79
akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #3

I just came to know about Oxide the other day, and god damn if it is not a dream workplace! High salary, flat structure, a large open-source presence, and maybe much more! Their blogs are really good too. I am an undergraduate right now and looking at the people working there, it doesn't seem likely they would hire a fresh grad, I think I have found the yardstick I am going to measure myself by going forward, "Am I s…

After a recent experience with flat structures, i tend to be really suspicious. My experience was a total mess of organization, with slack bipping all the time, and nobody "in charge" of maintaining common sense in the architecture, with a long term vision. Total chaos.

It is hard to define exactly what good management is but incredibly easy to tell when it isn't happening.

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by zipy124 »

bcantrill wrote: post #162
moregrist wrote: post #130

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I really tried to like the podcast. It’s been a few years, so maybe it’s improved. The topics were good. The guests were great. But Bryan Cantrill was just terrible at letting his guests actually talk. Bryan, if you’re listening, please let your guests talk. We have a large amount of content on YouTube if we want to hear the Bryan Cantrill take on, well, anything and everything. And it’s often amusing and sometimes r…

Well, a couple of things. First, the Jonathan Blow episode[0] was over six years ago. Second, it was nearly a three hour conversation -- I don't think I can be accused of not letting him talk? Third, I definitely remember that I felt I had to interrupt him to move the conversation along. Fourth, I had to pee really badly, I was absolutely freezing, and I was quite concerned about missing my flight to New Zealand that…

These sort of transparent answers are what make oxide and the people behind it such a fantastic company. Thank you for your wonderful contributions to the software and hardware community!

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by ge96 »

shimman wrote: post #7

Oxide is the only company where I check the careers page hoping that they have a position which I can apply to. Happy to see their success. Especially so if you've been following their journey through their podcasts (easily the best tech podcast out there if you care about your craft; no filler, all killer).

I try to listen to the podcast the main guy's brain seems to be on overdrive can barely talk

Re: Oxide raises $200M Series C

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Post by ajb »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #244
lispisok wrote: post #219

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Excessive amounts of interviews is more likely they were not enthusiastic about him but didnt have anybody else better and were stringing him along until they found somebody else.

I don't buy it. Seems like a waste of everyone's time. Even if you don't respect the candidate's time, it's still a waste of the employee's time, which is valuable to the company.

Yeah, I've seen someone get strung along and then finally hired. What happened was that it was a bit of a downturn so there was a limit to the hiring. Another dept somehow convinced the division head that their role was more urgent, so our department was left without approval even though we wanted the guy. It was a poor job market so he didn't land anywhere else even though it was a few months before the approval finally arrived. Everyone felt kind of shit about it. The guy was quite jittery to start with.

That sounds like it was a terrible place, but it was a good department in a somewhat hard nosed company. He ended up staying there 10 years.

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