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Rackspace have many divisions and revenue streams, Exchange being a small part of their overall business. They have many thousands of customers still using thei
by alt227 4y ago
Rackspace have many divisions and revenue streams, Exchange being a small part of their overall business.
They have many thousands of customers still using their other products that are completely unaware of whats going on in Exchange right now. I mean, it didnt even make HN front page!
Rackspace will not die from this, they will plod along as a reseller for other clouds for many years to come.
- gjvc 4y agoRackspace will not die from this, they will plod along as a reseller for other clouds for many years to come. Equinix will pick them up for pennies on the dollar.
- shkkmo 4y ago> I mean, it didnt even make HN front page! There was an article on the frontpage about the outage when it was first happening. Edit: This is the one I saw on the first page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33839941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33839941
- acdha 4y agoRackspace does have other revenue streams, and this will be a wakeup call for their remaining customers because there's no reason to expect that a gross management failure like this will be isolated to one unit. This did make the HN front page – that's where I learned of it – but it wasn't really a surprise to most of us. This is what private equity does and it's what was predicted back in 2016. I didn't see anyone with high expectations for the deal, but I did hear about several people migrating away as soon as the Apollo news broke.
- lowbloodsugar 4y agoEr, well this is the second time it’s hit the front page so