[aabhay]

I simply don’t see the value here. At the cost of these systems its inevitable that you hire at least one person full time to manage your rack infra, and that person would likely prefer the customizability of commodity hardware.

Source: I run a startup that recently did our datacenter buildout. At no point were we at all interested in a single integrated vendor.

[subarctic]

Wouldn't that person want to have everything work well together so he has less headaches?

[dcre]

All we can say is empirically this is not true. Plenty of people whose full time job is managing rack infra are sick and tired of the customizability of commodity hardware, of the many custom bugs in commodity software, and of the customizability of the price of VMware.

[ykurtov]

You don't need oxide, you can't afford it, and you're not a target customer.

[aabhay]

This is equally true of a company with a bad product?