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What is their product exactly? It’s a server that is cheaper for some reason?

the product is a podcast the server is just merch

It's the full hardware/firmware stack up to and including VM hypervisor. A complete rack solution, but it's the tailored firmware and integrated hypervisor, networking that sets it apart from another OEM that sells you a full rack solution. Afaik.

B2B/Enterprise datacenter software. Alternative to VMware and the likes. None of their core products are open to the average Joe afaik. There was a post about that sometime back on here.

Enterprise software and hardware, built from the ground up. Definitely not just a VMware alternative, though the end product is virtual instances of course.

We're building racks over here! And all our software is open source.

I'm building my business right now and I'm an engineer on a budget so it's running on a homelab and my intermediate scaling problem is to cluster Mac Minis but if my dreams become real I'd love to have an Oxide rack. Very pie in the sky but I've followed ya'll for a minute and I love what I've read, watched, and seen so far.

Its a bit strange thing to say, their software is QUITE LITERALLY OPEN TO EVERYBODY. Its literally all Open Source.

Their product is a bunch of servers in a rack designed to run that open source software.

But you can run most of their software yourself.

It's a server that is more expensive for some reason.

The more accurate way to frame this would be a server that cheaper for some reason.

Username checks out.

I’m serious I can’t tell what it is. Something with all the benefits of on prem and cloud without the costs of either.

Change "something" to "a computer" and you got it!

It's a big ass computer (technically many computers in a rack) that gives you a cloud provider style API to manage on-premises infrastructure. Plug it in, connect to the web console or API, and provision yourself some sweet sweet virtual machines, disks, and VPCs.

Data center in a box

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