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The site homepage (rather than the launch announcement) is a bit clearer about their plan: https://oxide.computer/

> Hyperscaler infrastructure for the rest of us

> Oxide is building a new kind of server.

> True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.

They're building servers, for people who run their own compute infrastructure.




Like Nutanix?


A better title then would be “Oxide Computer to build servers for compute infrastructures.”


That's far less explanatory.


Why? It names the company and what they do and what they sell for.

The current title conveys 0 useful information. Don’t know who those people are and a “computer company” could be anything.


The discussions about the title are interesting to me. I have followed both Jessie and Bryan for years, and seeing their names together and "computer company" got me exceptionally excited!


If you don’t know those people, the entire title falls flat. Imagine if it was just some random people starting a computer company, which could be damn near anything.




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