Isn't Oxide kind of like Oracle now building polished vertically integrated monster machines ? A bit humorous from that perspective given Cantrills dislike for Larry Nevertheless cool company and product.

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throw0101c 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Isn't Oxide kind of like Oracle now building polished vertically integrated monster machines ?

Oxide is kind of like Sun Microsystems, building polished vertically integrated monster machines, e.g. Sun E10k.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Enterprise

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atonse 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Isn’t the main issue with Oracle the aggressive sales and exploitation of captive customers?

	▲	Sparkle-san 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They don't call oracle "a law firm with a software division" for no reason.
	▲	calvinmorrison 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'd assume oracles main issue is that personal-computers-on-steroids as servers mostly won, and we don't all need AS/400 or mainframe architectures. 99% of problems can be solved with practically commodity hardware and software.

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immibis 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Competing with someone you don't like who has a monopoly on something makes a lot of sense.

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cpach 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To me they are much more similar to Sun than Oracle (before the latter aquired the former).

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panick21_ a day ago | parent | prev [-]

The opposition to Oracle was never about building vertically integrated machines.