Interesting way to reduce that pressure - I suspect that intention is to acquire some "dev friendly" company and try to replicate what CF is doing when it comes

Interesting way to reduce that pressure - I suspect that intention is to acquire some "dev friendly" company and try to replicate what CF is doing when it comes to capturing developers mindshare, exposing knowledge of availabile and offered services etc. Instead of working to make Akamai brand services more accessible and not perceived as stinky corporate concrete slab they decided to just buy something with good reputation among developers. General strategy is somewhat good because otherwise (I think) they will be very slowly moved into obsolescence by CF but the execution..