Compensation as a Reflection of Values / Oxide
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Our thoughts on compensation, and how they reflect Oxide's values.

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.

  • ripcord@kbin.social
    702·
    1 year ago

    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.

    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.

    • odiumEnglish
      311·
      1 year ago

      I think they’re mostly targeting customers who want an AWS- or GCP-like experience from a developer perspective (compute is abstracted and you can provision it with an API, etc.), but want to own their own compute infrastructure and have it on-prem. That market has mostly had to cobble together consumer-inspired HP/Cisco/whatever stuff historically (like, one of the early talks about the Oxide value proposition was complaining about why every server in the rack needs a CD drive, which was the norm from Dell), because the kinds of stripped-down, super-efficient hardware designs the hyperscalers were building weren’t available to the general public, so this is that: hyperscaler-like technology for people who want to own it themselves. I think the motivations for why people would want to own their own are probably a mix of financial (at a certain scale there’s a tipping point and it gets cheaper), and regulatory/compliance/whatever, like if it’s healthcare data, or defense, etc.

      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.

      • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • odiumEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • drd@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      A few people have had similar thoughts and deeper conversations including a few comments from their CTO can be found over on hackernews.

    • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I read that summary twice, and decided it was a lot of words to say, “We sell cloud services.”

      • hohoho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • AtmaJnana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      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(?).

    • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • PatFusty@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hyperscalar devices are fantastic for housing virtual workloads, including ends user virtual machines. Look up Nutanix for a company doing it right.