I love Stack Overflow but there's a lot about this announcement that doesn't make sense. One: is Rackspace really such a great company? Hard to say. Maybe this

I love Stack Overflow but there's a lot about this announcement that doesn't make sense. One: is Rackspace really such a great company? Hard to say. Maybe this CEO was able to achieve great results there. From where I'm sitting, Rackspace is a third-tier cloud infrastructure provider at best, falling farther and farther behind competent "supermarkets" like Azure/GCE/AWS, as well as niche providers like Digital Ocean, Hetzner, or Softlayer. As for the announcement itself, this feels _incredibly_ "photoshopped". I give Joel a lot of credit for stepping back from something he wasn't excited about, but this press release reads as just this -- a press release. This is the guy who wrote "Hitting the High Notes", "The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing", and many other fantastic essays. The entire tone of this release just screamed "PR".