I’ve posted about this last year. However, during this time they’ve managed to keep it up and have risen their salaries. The article is an interesting read that goes about their reasoning for paying everyone the same salary.
It’s quite rare to see a company pay every employee the same salary, even rarer to have salaries this high. Very interested in how long they’ll be able to keep this up.
About the company
Oxide Computer Company is the creator of the world’s first commercial Cloud Computer, a true rack-scale system with fully unified hardware and software, purpose built to deliver hyperscale cloud computing to on-premises data centers. With Oxide, enterprises can fully realize the economic and operational benefits of cloud ownership, with access to the same self-service development experience of public cloud, without the public cloud cost. Oxide empowers developers to build, run and operate any application with enhanced security, latency, and control, and frees enterprises to up-level IT operations to accelerate strategic initiatives. Oxide customers include the Idaho National Laboratory as well as a global financial services firm. To learn more about Oxide’s cloud computer, visit oxide.computer.
Working specifically on things like this for over a decade, this sounds like nonsense.
I mean, I know it’s marketing but I’m curious what they’re actually doing that’s different or innovative.
Best summary I could find from the link op posted. It gives a much more integrated and efficient experience compared to similar offerings from larger companies.
They are not wrong.
But I mean, if you go down that route as an msp you are so fucking vendor locked is not even funny.
Cobbled together HP / Cisco / juniper / VMware / dell / nutanix / whatever might not be optimal. But you can write your own systems to talk and provision to all of them.
They did at least make it open source, so you can do stuff like that if you can afford having a dev or two just learn how the source code works for a while.
A few people have had similar thoughts and deeper conversations including a few comments from their CTO can be found over on hackernews.
Thanks!
Yeah, I read that summary twice, and decided it was a lot of words to say, “We sell cloud services.”
Except that they sell racks full of servers starting in the $500K ballpark. Those racks are themselves the building blocks for one’s own cloud service.
right? I guess I’m a time traveler or something , because that exact ad copy could also have described an Egenera BladeFrame in 2004 or a rack of Cisco UCS chassis, circa 2009(?).
Or the original azure stack
They built appliances that compete with something like VXrack. Their OS on switches, servers, etc. and you interact with their front-end. They spent basically 4 years writing custom firmware for and specifically selecting all of the random components on their boards. Knowing the people involved, it’s another in a long line of projects like this that they’ve dove into and haven’t made great progress on.
Best paid janitors and security guards in the business. Id suck 3 dicks at once to get paid that much for cleaning a toilet and wiping down tables.
Hyperscalar devices are fantastic for housing virtual workloads, including ends user virtual machines. Look up Nutanix for a company doing it right.