But isn’t it a little surprising (I’m not an expert) that Dell or Supermicro or somefirm like that hadn’t already started offering an approachable access to either OCP gear or a proprietary knockoff of it? Presumably that may still happen if Oxide is seen to have proven the market.
Azure tried this, not with their hyperscaler stuff, but with Azure Operator Nexus.
Basically an "opinionated" combination of Dell, Arista, and Pure storage with a special Azure AKS running on top and a metric ton of management and orchestration smarts. The target customer base was telcos who needed local capabilities in their data centers and who might otherwise have gone to OCP.
As far as I can surmise, it's dead, but not EOLed. Microsoft nuked the operator business unit earlier in the year, and judging by recent job postings from contract shops, AT&T might be the only customer.
These companies are looked into their way of doing things. Also, they would be competing with themselves. It would also require more work on their side then they do now.
I think the whole 'existing company is not doing something, therefore its a bad idea' is a really dangerous take.
Oxide is also not just exactly, OCP, they share some aspects, but Oxide racks are optimized for typical DC of large organizations. Maybe there is a balance there that matters.
