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I felt sad about their acquisitions and strategies. They had SliceHost - a big player in very beginning of Cloud, they had a solid background in Hosting Provide
by mot2ba 6y ago
I felt sad about their acquisitions and strategies. They had SliceHost - a big player in very beginning of Cloud, they had a solid background in Hosting Provider, but they just give them all and knees AWS.
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoI know the founder of Slicehost quite well, Jason Seats. Smart guy. Here's an old interview from these days, by none other than DHH [0]. I was at AWS in these years - I thought that Rackspace had a good chance of becoming a serious competitor in the cloud space, and Slicehost was a smart acquisition. AWS then executed flawlessly. Rackspace, well, picked one of the worst possible strategies to chase the cloud opportunity. Furthermore, Openstack was a giant mistake, IMHO. Execs thought that people wanted multi-cloud and private clouds. I met with literally 1,000 customers per year, and almost none of them wanted these things. [0]: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2974-the-slicehost-story#:~:text=David%20Heinemeier%20Hansson%20chats%20with,.com%2Ffounderstories%2Fslicehost https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2974-the-slicehost-story#:~:t.... Edit: I found the second part of the interview, where Jason and Matt discuss the acquisition by Rackspace [1]. [1]: https://vimeo.com/groups/99803/videos/26333537 https://vimeo.com/groups/99803/videos/26333537