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This is an interesting mix. In my experience Linode has a good UX and is well targeted at SMEs, whereas I'm not sure anyone has bought an Akamai contract anywhere but a golf course, and it has a UX to match.

Is this Akamai trying to buy access to a market who would previously not even consider them, or is it Akamai trying to buy access to the more general cloud infrastructure market? If they're trying to do both I can't see it going down well.

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We failed to build Linode like things internally. We innovate through acquisition.

[ source: I was a part of those failures ]

If you don't mind sharing, how long ago was this? And do you know if the attitude is, "this is hard and we blew it, let's by an expert and learn from them" or was it, "we only failed because <excuse> let's buy a starter platform and use it as the foundation?"

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