Akamai to acquire linode

[girish]

"Akamai To Acquire Linode to Provide Businesses with a Developer-friendly and Massively-distributed Platform to Build, Run and Secure Applications"

https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-to-acquire-linode

Previously, they had acquired Inverse who make SOGo - https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-technologies-acquires-inverse-inc-adds-to-zero-trust-se

[timconsidine]

@girish interesting
feels like bad news to me
but hey ho

[girish]

@timconsidine linode was the "oldest" modern cloud provider, so I am quite nostalgic. Given that the cloud server space has wafer thin margins, I guess it's hard to compete without lots of investment. Looks like most of the server providers make money of other "services" these days like managed k8s, analytics, app deployment etc.

That said, SOGo seems actively developed, so we have to wait and see .

[timconsidine]

@girish yes, I used to be Linode customer
And am very happy with them.
Just a bit sad (personally) to see them swallowed up.