Rackspace enters tipping-point year with newly minted sales chief

Rackspace support manager Jeff Cotten was Tuesday named company president, halving the workload of the now single-jobbed chief executive Taylor Rhodes. Newly private Rackspace has promised more professional services in support of public clouds and VMware as it enters a tipping point year. Cotten, with Rackspace for eight …

[Anonymous Coward]

Tipping over, if they don't get their act together.

Private ownership helps, normally... but not when the majority owner is a VC milking a successful startup to death. Is that essentially Apollo's game?

[JaitcH]

For the sake of transparency ...

why does 'The Register' never disclose it's relationship with Rackspace?

After all, The Registers reson d'etre is transparency.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: For the sake of transparency ...

What relationship - as a mere hosting customer?

Former customer, apparently.. http://www.rackspace.co.uk/customers/register in search results but the page is gone. Apparently they forgot to update their Dutch site, as http://www.rackspace.nl/customers/register still works (in English). Like I said they don't have their act together.

[Anonymous Coward]

It seems like they are at a crossroads. I'll give them credit though for figuring out that they are not going to win a price, or tech, war with AWS and Google.