EDIT: Nevermind, they seem to habe stopped caring about hosting and now provide support for AWS. Sounds a lot like consulting. ——————- At some point, innovati

EDIT: Nevermind, they seem to habe stopped caring about hosting and now provide support for AWS. Sounds a lot like consulting. ——————- At some point, innovation of the software slack on top of bare metal will slow down and the tooling will become commoditized. IF, and that’s a big if, the best-in-class bare metal remains available for indiscriminate purchase, competitors may start to commoditize the cloud - AWS will need to start to fight a price war. But those are two big question marks and even then, if any company can fight a price war then it’s Amazon. So I wouldn’t bet on rackspace here. For the time being, they may be able to serve those enterprises competitively that just want some bare metal - but once AWS and GCP roll our proprietary ARM chips, they may not be able to keep up any more.