The short answer is that on-prem is used by a lot of companies for many reasons that go beyond "legacy/people don't know about cloud" (and even go beyond "regulatory environments"!), and these boxes are meant for people who have serious requirements.
I'd recommend the O+F ep posted in sibling, but I think here the pitch is "well you need this hardware anyways right? How about buying one that's easy to use and doesn't take a month to get working?" All built by people who are so obsessed with root cause analysis that they've ended up writing their own firmware, running on an OS where these people are common contributors.
Thanks, I think now I get the excitement (from the engineering perspective more than the business one)! "Fixing everything" is probably everyone's dream.
I'd recommend the O+F ep posted in sibling, but I think here the pitch is "well you need this hardware anyways right? How about buying one that's easy to use and doesn't take a month to get working?" All built by people who are so obsessed with root cause analysis that they've ended up writing their own firmware, running on an OS where these people are common contributors.