Comments on: Rackspace Takes Page Out of the Old Microsoft’s Playbook – Partner Don’t Kill Ecosystem Players http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/12/17/rackspace-takes-page-out-of-the-old-microsofts-playbook-partner-dont-kill-ecosystem-players/ Computer Science meets Social Science Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:10:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 2011 Cloud Trend: Going Mainstream As Businesses Seek Cheap Scalability http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/12/17/rackspace-takes-page-out-of-the-old-microsofts-playbook-partner-dont-kill-ecosystem-players/comment-page-1/#comment-42225 2011 Cloud Trend: Going Mainstream As Businesses Seek Cheap Scalability Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:16:37 +0000 http://siliconangle.net/ver2/?p=11269#comment-42225 [...] Rackspace Takes Page Out of the Old Microsoft’s Playbook – Partner Don’t Kill Ecosystem Player... [...] [...] Rackspace Takes Page Out of the Old Microsoft’s Playbook – Partner Don’t Kill Ecosystem Player… [...]

]]> By: Michelle Greer http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/12/17/rackspace-takes-page-out-of-the-old-microsofts-playbook-partner-dont-kill-ecosystem-players/comment-page-1/#comment-9978 Michelle Greer Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:10:31 +0000 http://siliconangle.net/ver2/?p=11269#comment-9978 A disclosure that I work for Rackspace and am on a team of very valuable and dedicated people looking to build our ecosystem to best serve our customers. I would like to point out that the adoption of relational databases-as-a-service including Amazon RDS, is good for FathomDB and is also good for the web in general. These services help evolve MySQL, allowing developers to focus on scaling their database instead of day-to-day operations. The team at FathomDB is fiercely dedicated to pushing new and better features. This is definitely a company to watch. A disclosure that I work for Rackspace and am on a team of very valuable and dedicated people looking to build our ecosystem to best serve our customers.

I would like to point out that the adoption of relational databases-as-a-service including Amazon RDS, is good for FathomDB and is also good for the web in general. These services help evolve MySQL, allowing developers to focus on scaling their database instead of day-to-day operations.

The team at FathomDB is fiercely dedicated to pushing new and better features. This is definitely a company to watch.

]]> By: John Furrier http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/12/17/rackspace-takes-page-out-of-the-old-microsofts-playbook-partner-dont-kill-ecosystem-players/comment-page-1/#comment-9976 John Furrier Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:01:09 +0000 http://siliconangle.net/ver2/?p=11269#comment-9976 Good point Robert in essence modernizing the notion of "industry building'. Very good point. The big picture to me is this market of innovation which from my seat in Silicon Valley it's booming. The cloud is enabling many new and crazy ideas that need a chance. The big players need to enable this - VMware for instance has taken a ton of heat in their ecosystem by not being trustworthy and they are working hard to correct that. As a developer I want to focus on my application or innovation not put my attention to distracting things like spot pricing. The architecuture and offerings that the big cloud guys put out speaks volumes to their strategy. This is what we are watching. No entrepreneur want to developer for a market controlled and dictated by a unpredictable market maker. Never mind the fact that after spending months or years developing they get crushed by their once partner - that isn't good for innovation and a vibrant, growing, and profitable ecosystem. Your point about open source modernizing the approach for ecosystem success is great. Thanks Good point Robert in essence modernizing the notion of “industry building’. Very good point.

The big picture to me is this market of innovation which from my seat in Silicon Valley it’s booming. The cloud is enabling many new and crazy ideas that need a chance. The big players need to enable this – VMware for instance has taken a ton of heat in their ecosystem by not being trustworthy and they are working hard to correct that. As a developer I want to focus on my application or innovation not put my attention to distracting things like spot pricing. The architecuture and offerings that the big cloud guys put out speaks volumes to their strategy.

This is what we are watching. No entrepreneur want to developer for a market controlled and dictated by a unpredictable market maker. Never mind the fact that after spending months or years developing they get crushed by their once partner – that isn’t good for innovation and a vibrant, growing, and profitable ecosystem.

Your point about open source modernizing the approach for ecosystem success is great. Thanks

]]> By: Robert J Taylor http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/12/17/rackspace-takes-page-out-of-the-old-microsofts-playbook-partner-dont-kill-ecosystem-players/comment-page-1/#comment-9973 Robert J Taylor Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:53:53 +0000 http://siliconangle.net/ver2/?p=11269#comment-9973 John, I like the comparison to what Microsoft did in the 80's and 90's with creating a ecosystem that created a big pie industry that benefited many. One difference between Microsoft's strategy and what Rackspace is doing, I would say, is that Rackspace has provided open APIs and open sourced the specifications themselves versus closing the ecosystem and locking in partners to their way. Thus, it seems Rackspace is taking the best of what Microsoft did and applying the lessons learned from the Open Source community that created the Internet itself. Hopefully, this creates not only a large pie but a community of trust as well. Disclosure: I work for Rackspace, however my opinions (especially here) are my own. John, I like the comparison to what Microsoft did in the 80′s and 90′s with creating a ecosystem that created a big pie industry that benefited many. One difference between Microsoft’s strategy and what Rackspace is doing, I would say, is that Rackspace has provided open APIs and open sourced the specifications themselves versus closing the ecosystem and locking in partners to their way. Thus, it seems Rackspace is taking the best of what Microsoft did and applying the lessons learned from the Open Source community that created the Internet itself. Hopefully, this creates not only a large pie but a community of trust as well.

Disclosure: I work for Rackspace, however my opinions (especially here) are my own.

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