Building a Better Server? Oxide Computer Ships Its First Rack - Slashdot

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Oxide Computer Company spent four years working toward "The power of the cloud in your data center... bringing hyperscaler agility to the mainstream enterprise." And on June 30, Oxide finally shipped its very first server rack Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland shares this report Oxide CTO Bryan Cantrill sees real problems in the proprietary firmware that sits between hardware and system software — so Oxides server eliminates the BIOS and UEFI altogether, and replaces the hardware-managing baseboard management controller (or BMC) with "a proper service processor." On the Software Engineering Daily podcast, Cantrill says " These things boot like a rocket . "Oxides early funders include 92-year-old Pierre Lamond (who hired Andy Grove at Fairchild Semiconductor) — and customers who supported their vision. On Software Engineering Dailys podcast Cantrill points out that "If youre going to use a lot of compute, you actually dont want to rent it — you want to own it."

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