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Scoble's press release on this manages to combine a Thomas Friedman'ism, self-congratulations, and even a registered trademark symbol: ®...And it's only availab
by aaronbrethorst 11y ago
Scoble's press release on this manages to combine a Thomas Friedman'ism, self-congratulations, and even a registered trademark symbol: ®...And it's only available on Facebook, of course[1].
Meanwhile, this all buries the lede: Rackspace has lost to Amazon, and it's trying to pivot into becoming a consulting business before it completely implodes.
[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/robert-scoble/rackspace-announces-aws-managed-service-offerings-my-why/10156632931065355 https://www.facebook.com/notes/robert-scoble/rackspace-annou...
- subway 11y agoI disagree with this being an admission of Rackspace losing, and think it's more that Rackspace is finally embracing the ideals internally communicated for over a decade now -- Rackspace isn't a technology company, but rather a service company that heavily leverages technology. The cash cow at Rackspace isn't running servers or even VMs in a data center. It's providing management of those resources. It's also woth noting AWS is only the latest 3rd party RAX supports, following Azure, Office365, and Google Apps. It's quite likely other environments are supported in one-off arrangements.