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Rackspace to discontinue discounted services for open source projects

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Re: Rackspace to discontinue discounted services for open source projects

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Post by pm90 »

bdcravens wrote: post #14
stingraycharles wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They're trying to be a support company for other cloud providers. I'm sure there is a market for that kind of service but not sure how much margin there is to be made. I’ve seen that happen at one more big dedicated/colo hosting provider. Once the cloud started catching on with enterprises, they couldn’t resist the consultancy money of helping them in the migrations, and now they’re stuck being dependent on those t…

What's interesting is the shift from pushing their own cloud solution.

They tried to push an OpenStack based public cloud. It just didn't work that well.

Re: Rackspace to discontinue discounted services for open source projects

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Post by CM30 »

pm90 wrote: post #5
moocowtruck wrote: post #2

things must be getting bad at rackspace

Yep. Luckily I left before the acquisition. Every single person in my (ex) 11 person team left for other opportunities, including managers. And it was a pretty awesome team :(. Even the best recruiters left. I mean come on. They're trying to be a support company for other cloud providers. I'm sure there is a market for that kind of service but not sure how much margin there is to be made. I keep saying this but: if y…

> I keep saying this but: if your company has been acquired by private equity firms, consider moving asap. Most of these firms will strip the company bare, cut expenses to the bone and try to sell the company to someone else for a profit. While this strategy may work very well for traditional manufacturing firms, I'm highly skeptical of software/tech companies.

For anyone in a web hosting role, I suspect the same would probably apply if EIG bought the company. Those guys have a pretty lengthy record of buying out successful hosting companies and driving them into the ground.

https://researchasahobby.com/full-list-eig-hosting-companies...

Re: Rackspace to discontinue discounted services for open source projects

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Post by ramereth »

Director of the OSUOSL here.

We can certainly help as many projects as we can that are impacted by this. Situations like this is why we are still important today despite all the in-kind public cloud services projects can get. We provide a neutral hosting environment supported by various sponsorships (we can always use more!)

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