Huawei also does this. Built to order, single container. Completely isolated, plug’n’play.

Yeah, I'm aware, but I didn't think they were serious about it.

Yeah including networking and storage together with virtualization is what makes hyperconverged infrastructure hyperconverged. Otherwise it's usually just called converged infrastructure.

It's nice, it's just nothing new.

Obviously different marketing copy speaks to different people. But that is referring to how, when you buy a rack from us, you don't need to put everything together and cable it all up: you pull it out of the box, plug in networking and power, boot the thing up, and you're good to go. Installation time is hours, not days or weeks, which is the norm.

Hypothesis: "no cables" and "no assembly" here is analogous to the term "serverless". Or, more abstractly, the word "literally".

"Real" mainframes have RAS (Reliability, Availability, Servicing) features such as hotswapping for all hardware components and automated HA/workload migration across physical racks. They can also do SSI (single system image), i.e. run a single workload across physical nodes/racks as if it was just multiple 'cores' in a single shared-memory computer. Oxide computers will probably end up doing at least some of this (namely workload migration across racks for HA) but saying that it can comprehensively replace mainframe hardware as-is is a bit of a stretch. In terms of existing hardware it's closer to a midrange computer.

With source code availability: https://github.com/oxidecomputer

I think Oxide shares one idea with Apple: hardware and software should be created for each other. In that sense, your parent is correct.

You are also correct that we diverge from Apple in other ways, such as our commitment to openness, rather than secrecy.

> Ehrm. What is that exactly?

The first iMac famously made it easy to connect to the Internet; The 'i' in iMac was for "Internet". Its setup manual was a couple of pages long, mostly pictures and IIRC, just 37 words.