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195 points tosh | 1 comments | 21 Nov 24 18:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

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ZeroCool2u ◴[21 Nov 24 21:41 UTC] No.42208963[source]▶

If any Oxide staff are here, I'm just curious, is BlueSky a customer? Seems like it would fit well with their on-prem setup.

mkeeter ◴[21 Nov 24 22:43 UTC] No.42209455[source]▶

Nope, but many of us (Oxide staff) are big fans of what Bluesky is doing!

One of the Bluesky team members posted about their requirements earlier this month, and why Oxide isn't a great fit for them at the moment:

AceJohnny2 ◴[22 Nov 24 01:48 UTC] No.42210455[source]▶

> Also prices don't make sense for us.

Oof.

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tptacek ◴[22 Nov 24 22:25 UTC] No.42217861[source]▶

Why is that "oof"? They're using commodity servers today. Oxide does not offer commodity servers.

1. cplwankery ◴[23 Nov 24 07:48 UTC] No.42219720[source]▶

Good on 0x1d5 to bring back the era of expensive, proprietary hardware that everybody loved so much.

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