Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by nycdatasci » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 9:10 PM UTC

Akamai to Acquire Linode
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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by VWWHFSfQ » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 9:15 PM UTC

And thus was born a new entrant into the large public cloud space. Congrats Linode!

I'm guessing Digital Ocean will be next.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by lukeqsee » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 9:19 PM UTC

Really happy for Linode. I cannot say enough good things about the quality of their products and support.

As a customer who's built significant value on their infrastructure, I'm a little bit worried about the impact this acquisition will have on their operations. I really hope it gives them the resources to improve on the same mission, and not the beginning of significant change!

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by benatkin » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #2

And thus was born a new entrant into the large public cloud space. Congrats Linode! I'm guessing Digital Ocean will be next.

It seems like a massive acquihire to me - similar to Heroku.

I don't think that DigitalOcean will be acquihired.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by mastazi » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

Congrats Linode. I switched back to Linode after a few years on Digitalocean (I wanted the server to be located in my country and Linode offers that), I was really happy to see how much it has evolved since the last time I had used it circa 2013

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by ehayes » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

Crap, I was just telling someone how much I liked Linode.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by 37ef_ced3 » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

I love Linode. Strongly recommended.

For many years, I have run all my websites and services (back-ends for apps, etc.) on a few $5/month Nanodes.

For temporary/experimental stuff I sometimes use Vultr and Digital Ocean, but Linode's service and reliability is superior (especially versus Vultr). Linode is just top-notch.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by Elof » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 9:22 PM UTC

benatkin wrote: post #4

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #2

And thus was born a new entrant into the large public cloud space. Congrats Linode! I'm guessing Digital Ocean will be next.

It seems like a massive acquihire to me - similar to Heroku. I don't think that DigitalOcean will be acquihired.

Definitely not an acquihire. Linode build a super solid business without taking any venture.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by mlyle » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 9:25 PM UTC

benatkin wrote: post #4

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #2

And thus was born a new entrant into the large public cloud space. Congrats Linode! I'm guessing Digital Ocean will be next.

It seems like a massive acquihire to me - similar to Heroku. I don't think that DigitalOcean will be acquihired.

$900M is pretty steep to acquire about 200 employees, of whom only a small fraction are technical.

Nah, this is about acquiring a business for 9x revenue...

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by samwillis » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 9:27 PM UTC

benatkin wrote: post #4

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #2

And thus was born a new entrant into the large public cloud space. Congrats Linode! I'm guessing Digital Ocean will be next.

It seems like a massive acquihire to me - similar to Heroku. I don't think that DigitalOcean will be acquihired.

18 years is a long time to run a business, I believe Linode hasn’t had much outside investment. I suspect the founding team are looking to exit and will slowly pull back over the next couple of years.