The premise is that the bandwidth needed will be orders of magnitude less, because the engineering will be orders of magnitude better. The opportunity makes sense as we've long been climbing up the local maximum peak of enterprise sales driven tech behemoths built on a cobbled together mix of open source and proprietary pieces held together with bubblegum.
Can an engineering first approach break into the cloud market? Hard to say as enterprise sales is very powerful, and the numerous "worse is better" forces always loom large in these endeavours. That said, enterprise sales driven companies are fat, slow and complacent. Oxide is lean and driven, and a handful of killer use cases and success stories is probably enough to sustain them and could be the thin end of the wedge on long-term success. We can hope anyway.
Can an engineering first approach break into the cloud market? Hard to say as enterprise sales is very powerful, and the numerous "worse is better" forces always loom large in these endeavours. That said, enterprise sales driven companies are fat, slow and complacent. Oxide is lean and driven, and a handful of killer use cases and success stories is probably enough to sustain them and could be the thin end of the wedge on long-term success. We can hope anyway.