Maybe I'm old-school, but I clicked on the logo in the top left, then read the first sentence which reads "On-demand elastic resources", which gives me some idea about what it is, and then later it says "A rack-scale system, built true to cloud architecture, that you can own and operate in your data center." which makes me 100% understand what the product is.

Do new internet users not know that the landing page usually contains information about the product they're talking about in their blog posts? 99% of the cases you can find what you're looking for on the landing page, and it took me a whole of 30 seconds to get here, writing this comment took longer time.

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sofixa 3 days ago | parent [-]

> On-demand elastic resources

Which is kind of wrong, because there is nothing elastic nor "on demand" about metal you buy.

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diggan 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The hardware isn't elastic, obviously. But if a IT department sets up a Oxide rack, then the software development department can get the same sort of "on-demand 'elastic' resources" provisioned in that rack. I think that's what they're getting at. But yeah, obviously hardware itself can't be on-demand.

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ironhaven 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Elastic as in AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2). Flexible virtual machines provisioned with a web API not rubbery stretchy servers

	▲	sofixa 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		By that metric even VMware's vSphere with its abominable excuses for APIs also count as elastic. If you have to manage the hardware yourself, have to plan and pay for upfront for the maximum capacity you would need, and there are fixed limits you can hit and have to plan around yourself, it's not elastic.