Maybe this one will be different but usually this kind of acquisition marks the peak of the company and from them on things will go downhill while the acquiring company absorbs them and enterprisifies them.
Akamai to Acquire Linode
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#112How does DigitalOcean compare to Linode these days? One thing I noticed off the bat is that Linode still offers phone and email support, versus just a ticketing system interface.
I wonder if Cloudflare is thinking about acquiring DO to round up their next-gen cloud. DO's UI has gone downhill since 2017. It is so bloated and large. Used to be very compact. Folks from Cloudflare if you're reading this - please keep your UI compact. Your main UI (Dashboard) looks more compact that the docs[1] which are too sparse and terrible for developers who are not average consumers. They can handle the comp…
Digital ocean makes a hundred fifty million more in revenue and 50 million more in profits. I don't think digital ocean will acquire them or merge.
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#114Really 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!
I think you're probably safe assuming Akamai will ruin Linode. I went through this once before with Slicehost, and had to move to Linode once Rackspace made Slicehost unusable.
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#115Lots of comments on how people now need to move off Linode, but I cannot imagine Akamai bought this to kill it off. It actually makes me happy as Akamai is a very professional company with a lot of networking talent. I hope they level up Linode while keeping the best parts.
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#116I have been a Linode customer for most of their existence, and I mostly don't have to think about them. Which is awesome. I sure hope that doesn't change...
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah yes, the terrible failure of checks notes $116.46 billion market cap. https://companiesmarketcap.com/ibm/marketcap/
They're doing so terrible, only making $5.7B in profit in 2021. I wish I could fail so hard.
The best unicorns lose that much money in a year. Profits are for people who don’t “get it”
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
One could reasonably conclude that they will start doing this soon under their newly acquired Linode subsidiary.
Or they'll make Linode "call for pricing".
I find this unlikely. It would be a massive waste of capital to have acquired a developer-focused company such as as Linode only to make it, “contact us for pricing.” I think it’s more likely that they will sell the CDN product as another service within Linode.
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#119I hope nothing changes for the service. I've been a happy customer for more than a decade.
I would start looking for a new Linode now. This is a story we all know the ending of. Akamai is nearly 10,000 people and is therefore incapable of operating at the human scale that made Linode good.
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#120Oh no. Please no. I hope there’s a competitor to grow in Linode’s place.
You and me both.