Comments on: Rackspace breaks IPO drought http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/08/06/racking-up-the-rackspace-ipo/ Fortune's tech team offers analysis and perspective on the world’s most important developments. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:10:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Rich, Scotch Plains, NJ http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/08/06/racking-up-the-rackspace-ipo/#comment-5268 Rich, Scotch Plains, NJ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:10:26 +0000 http://bigtech.wordpress.com/?p=1300#comment-5268 Sorry, Jon, you're still missing miliki's point. The problems that Apple experience are software related, i.e. the services themselves caused the problem not the infrastructure. Losing emails is a software problem, not a network or hardware problem. But, Rackspace only does network and hardware. The comparison, then, is not fair to Rackspace because they simply won't be facing the same obstacles. Their client's might, but not Rackspace themselves. <strong>From Jon Fortt:</strong> First, there's plenty of software involved in what Rackspace does. Second, losing e-mail can also be a hardware problem, and Apple never explained what happened. Sorry, Jon, you're still missing miliki's point. The problems that Apple experience are software related, i.e. the services themselves caused the problem not the infrastructure. Losing emails is a software problem, not a network or hardware problem. But, Rackspace only does network and hardware. The comparison, then, is not fair to Rackspace because they simply won't be facing the same obstacles. Their client's might, but not Rackspace themselves.

From Jon Fortt: First, there's plenty of software involved in what Rackspace does. Second, losing e-mail can also be a hardware problem, and Apple never explained what happened.

]]> By: miliki,chicago,IL http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/08/06/racking-up-the-rackspace-ipo/#comment-5267 miliki,chicago,IL Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:13:48 +0000 http://bigtech.wordpress.com/?p=1300#comment-5267 From Someone who works in the hosting business I can say that the comparison between rackspace and apple is incorrect. Apple's product was a Web Service, not hosting. Host only provide the computers for other to host their applications. The Web Service is the application and it was this that was Apple's problem. <strong>From Jon Fortt:</strong> But Apple also has a history of hosting its web services on its own infrastructure. So it ends up being a compound problem. From Someone who works in the hosting business I can say that the comparison between rackspace and apple is incorrect. Apple's product was a Web Service, not hosting. Host only provide the computers for other to host their applications. The Web Service is the application and it was this that was Apple's problem.

From Jon Fortt: But Apple also has a history of hosting its web services on its own infrastructure. So it ends up being a compound problem.

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