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Can anyone explain Oxide's product beyond the (fairly terrible IMHO) site? Seems like some kind of prepackaged VMware-alike including rack + hardware + networking fused into a single uncustomizable product?

What is the intended application?

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I wrote this in the thread last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324

Thanks. It seems extremely reminiscent of e.g. the Cobalt RaQ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_RaQ ), but maybe "AWS Outposts for the rest of us" might be a more suitable contemporary parallel

I don't know why people are so allergic to the terms private cloud, (hyper)converged infrastructure, cloud repatriation, etc.

It's because the well got poisoned by marketing teams selling things that were not actually a material improvement over what came before.

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