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You generally don't see announcements like this. Are they having a hard time selling that's why it is out there? You would think some of these companies you re
by us0r 12y ago
You generally don't see announcements like this.
Are they having a hard time selling that's why it is out there? You would think some of these companies you read saying things like "we missed the cloud" would jump at this.
- nodesocket 12y agoReally nobody left, RAX is too big and requires another public company, mainly a blue blood to acquire them. IBM got Softlayer. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft obviously have their own clouds. RedHat has its own PaaS OpenShift. Awkward spot really. Perhaps Facebook wants to join the cloud hosting business, but I doubt it, since they've just coughed up insane amounts of cash with Oculus and whatsapp. Smart play though, Morgan Stanley will figure out the details and likely find a buyer eventually. MS is kind of like `The Wolf` from Pulp Fiction or Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad, no questions asked problem solvers.
- alaskamiller 12y agoFacebook has Parse, maybe if that demo matures to having RAX needs then it's worthwhile.
- akurilin 12y agoParse was on AWS, at least before the acquisition, if I recall correctly.
- rdl 12y agoHP would be my bet. They have "HP Cloud" which is OpenStack, and they're trying to get more into services in general. OTOH, kind of a clusterfuck in general, and presumably if HP had any interest they would have just done the deal rather than this customer-terrifying announcement. Maybe someone from Asia?
- dredmorbius 12y agoDoes Oracle still have whatever fragments remain of Sun's cloud service that nobody ever used?
- hect0r 12y agoI would put my money on Cisco. They have been trying to reinvent themselves as a cloud company and clearly their financials show declining margins on hardware as the market shifts to cloud. Their intercloud announcement is interesting but not real yet and I think a Rackspace acquisition would give them a serious boost just as the SoftLayer acquisition by IBM has really accellerated IBM's move into cloud services. The other possible buyer could be EMC -- for similar reasons -- but I would definitely think Cisco would be more likely.
- us0r 12y agoAnother possible option could be one of the big consulting firms - Accenture, Deloitte, CGI, etc.
- tbyehl 12y agoMost likely to be private equity. IBM got SoftLayer after GI Partners rolled them up with a couple of other acquisitions.
- badamson 12y agoIt actually happens a lot. 8-K says they've been approached by multiple parties: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1107694/000110769414000025/rax8k_051514.htm http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1107694/0001107694140...