I think they are a competitor to the 'HP/Cisco/IBM/Dell... (blades or hyper-converged)' part of this. They basically saying 'we will do it better'.
Their marketing and story is supposed to convince you that you could save money running their things rather then Dell. And instead of paying for VMWare you get Open Source Software for most of it.
> Until this company has a certain/size and scale, no one serious will trust their black boxes at any type of scale.
I guess that a risk they are willing to take. Some costumers might wait for a few years until they see Oxide being big enough.
Other costumers might be sick of HP/Dell and might take a Risk on a smaller company.
Since they seem to have some costumers, some organizations are willing to take the risk to get away from Dell and friends.
So I think you are the target audience but you are not willing to risk it until they are larger and less likely to fail and they have a good story in regards to support. I assume they have a support story of some kind, no idea what it is 'Contact Sales' ....
In terms of 'trusting they will continue exists' all they can do is survive for a few years until they are pretty established, then more people will be willing buy their product. And hopefully in that time their existing costumers rave about how amazing the product is.
Lets hope they don't go bust because all potential costumers are just waiting. Then again, you can't anybody for not buying from a startup.
> Their marketing and story is supposed to convince you that you could save money running their things rather then Dell. And instead of paying for VMWare you get Open Source Software for most of it.
As someone who has dealt with mostly Debian and Ubuntu in recent years, every time I had to deal with even small numbers of RHEL licenses I often asked myself "Why do put up with this?" (I know why, but still… such overhead.)
I think that ship has sailed in the 90s. From the 80s to the 90s IBM dropped like 50% of the people that worked there and lots of companies were moving away from mainframes in droves. I'm sure some people got fired for sticking to mainframes to long and wasting money. And likely some companies went bust in the late 90s for having a IT infrastructure based on IBM Mainframes.
That's mostly speculation but it seems like it has to be true.
Their marketing and story is supposed to convince you that you could save money running their things rather then Dell. And instead of paying for VMWare you get Open Source Software for most of it.
> Until this company has a certain/size and scale, no one serious will trust their black boxes at any type of scale.
I guess that a risk they are willing to take. Some costumers might wait for a few years until they see Oxide being big enough.
Other costumers might be sick of HP/Dell and might take a Risk on a smaller company.
Since they seem to have some costumers, some organizations are willing to take the risk to get away from Dell and friends.
So I think you are the target audience but you are not willing to risk it until they are larger and less likely to fail and they have a good story in regards to support. I assume they have a support story of some kind, no idea what it is 'Contact Sales' ....
In terms of 'trusting they will continue exists' all they can do is survive for a few years until they are pretty established, then more people will be willing buy their product. And hopefully in that time their existing costumers rave about how amazing the product is.
Lets hope they don't go bust because all potential costumers are just waiting. Then again, you can't anybody for not buying from a startup.