Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options

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Post by AJ72 » Fri, May 16, 2014, 12:47 AM UTC

Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options
bloomberg.com

Re: Rackspace Hires Morgan Stanley to Evaluate Options

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Post by bruceb » Fri, May 16, 2014, 2:16 AM UTC

Contemplating moving from RS to Linode. Anyone done the same? Was it worth it for the savings?

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Post by 127001brewer » Fri, May 16, 2014, 2:23 AM UTC

bruceb wrote: post #2

Contemplating moving from RS to Linode. Anyone done the same? Was it worth it for the savings?

For myself, I greatly appreciate having a service like Mailgun available to Rackspace customers - does Linode (or another company) have a similar e-mail service?

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Post by patio11 » Fri, May 16, 2014, 2:25 AM UTC

127001brewer wrote: post #3

bruceb wrote: post #2

Contemplating moving from RS to Linode. Anyone done the same? Was it worth it for the savings?

For myself, I greatly appreciate having a service like Mailgun available to Rackspace customers - does Linode (or another company) have a similar e-mail service?

I'm pretty sure you can use Mailgun regardless of where you host at, FWIW.

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Post by hderms » Fri, May 16, 2014, 2:30 AM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #4

127001brewer wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For myself, I greatly appreciate having a service like Mailgun available to Rackspace customers - does Linode (or another company) have a similar e-mail service?

I'm pretty sure you can use Mailgun regardless of where you host at, FWIW.

Yeah, we use mailgun without Rackspace.

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Post by rhizome » Fri, May 16, 2014, 2:39 AM UTC

So, current RS customers, the history of these kinds of actions tell us that right now is the best that Rackspace will ever be in the future.

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Post by us0r » Fri, May 16, 2014, 2:54 AM UTC

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.

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Post by fourstar » Fri, May 16, 2014, 2:56 AM UTC

127001brewer wrote: post #3

bruceb wrote: post #2

Contemplating moving from RS to Linode. Anyone done the same? Was it worth it for the savings?

For myself, I greatly appreciate having a service like Mailgun available to Rackspace customers - does Linode (or another company) have a similar e-mail service?

You don't need Rackspace to use mailgun, but Sendgrid also works nicely and is independent. Just like you don't need to use EC2 to use S3 (or Route 53, etc).

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Post by dvanduzer » Fri, May 16, 2014, 3:00 AM UTC

Rackspace over-bet on managed services, and under-bet on physical plant.

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Post by smacktoward » Fri, May 16, 2014, 3:04 AM UTC

Aaargh.

I love Rackspace. I was looking forward to being a happy Rackspace customer until I was old and gray. And all the things I love about them would be the first things to go after an acquisition.

Aaaaaaaaaargh.