[outsb]

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?

[steveklabnik]

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

[outsb]

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

[wmf]

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

[riking]

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