We had the opposite experience. We contacted them through their form this year and they were happy to discuss with us even when we communicated from the beginning we wouldn't be customer in the short to medium term and even for single rack systems.

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MichaelZuo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

How did that compare to the big firms? HPE, Dell, and so on.

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Sayrus 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The rack were not insanely expensive, expandable so you don't have to build fully stacked racks from the beginning. Purely based on a hardware, compares to other blade systems but pricier.

The interesting part was the software, management interface, Terraform provider and how everything just fit together. Having storage, network and compute all in a single managed rack package brings a lot of value and brings down TCO. Really appreciated the security group like approach to network policies.

Unfortunately I haven't worked with HPE or Dell recently so I'm not sure what they currently offer.

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esseph 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You don't go to oxide for lowest cost.

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jiveturkey 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I think the idea is that, in fact, you do.

Not one-time cost, but rather TCO.

	▲	esseph 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You get a fully auditable hardware and software BOM, and you get an air-gapped, API-driven, on-prem cloud. You still have a fairly large up front cost ($600k base in 2023ish numbers, probably over $1M now?), and an ongoing support subscription.