Comment by pjmlp
2 months ago
Apple is the survivor of vertical integration on consumer computing, the PC clones were the exception from everyone else in the market.
Apple is now having that aura, only because they got really really lucky before the money collectors shown up at the door.
Sure. What's your point with regards to Oxide?
The point was it being compared to Apple.
Why not the vertical integration of Oracle Solaris servers, IBM vertical integration of IBM i, z/OS or z/TPF, Unisys vertical integration of Clearpath MCP or OS 2200?
The basis of my comparison was nothing to do with business circumstance, but just that Apple and Oxide both were known for having taste in software (in Apple's case faded but still apparent in the DNA), and they build their own hardware to express that taste.
I think perhaps Solaris had a bit of that under Sun but I can't imagine that being the case under Oracle. And I'm not really an enterprise infra guy so can't really speak to IBM or Unisys offerings.
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IBM stuff is likely to expensive and optimized for different things. Same for the other Post-Mainframe stuff. You would pay for a lot of stuff you don't need, and there is a reason very few new costumers adopt it.
Oxide costumers want to run standard VM that they normally run in public cloud.
Do Oracle Solaris serves come with a horizontal scale out cloud infrastructure? As far as I know they don't.
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