On: Rackspace Buys Server Management Platform Cloudkick (YC W09)

[jeremyjarvis]

"To top that off, Salesforce just bought Heroku, telling the world that they really intend to compete in cloud hosting against Amazon"

I don't think so, not directly anyway. Heroku is platform-as-a-service (applications), Amazon is infrastructure.

[sedachv → jeremyjarvis]

And what do you think runs on top of that infrastructure?

[geekinthecorner → jeremyjarvis]

We can quibble on how you use it, but in the end, the goal is to own as much of the application hosting market as they possibly can. At least, if the cloud pundits are right, and if there can be only 2 or 3 utility computing companies in the end.