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[–] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

It is also exploring an arrangement called “bring your own chip” (BYOC), where new customers will be required to supply their own hardware, shifting capital requirements off Oracle’s books.

Does anyone else do this? I could see a smaller data center needing it, but hardware management is something I thought was a perk of going with a huge company

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I think they usually just refer to this as on premise management? Like, its your server but an outside company manages everything for you

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Leave it to Oracle to advertise it as something completely new and innovative.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I didn't look into it in detail, but might this be more specific to RAM/video cards? With costs of those components skyrocketing, whoever is committing to buying those is going to have a hard time forecasting.

    So maybe they're offloading that risk? Kinda like a futures contract, but for computer chips.

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