[ale] Colo NE Metro Atlanta?

[Ryan Fish]

INLD has also outsourced all of its billing and most of its support staff to
the Philippines.  USA-based support is only staffed 8-8 M-F these days
instead of the 24/7/365 they used to be...

-Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
To: ale at ale.org
Popovitch
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:21 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Colo NE Metro Atlanta?

--- Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:39 -0400, Ryan Fish wrote:
> > "The sale of e^deltacom represents a continuation of our strategy to
> > focus on our core competencies and to strengthen our balance sheet," 
> 
> Translation:  "We are not competent enough to run e^deltacom and
> generate a profit" said ITC^DeltaCom CEO.

..or they saw a peak in profitability and wanted the cash to focus
elsewhere. 
Something is up in the hosting/datacenter world these days, Interland just
sold
all of their dedicated hosting servers/services to Peer1 today.  I suspect
it
is just a lot of market consolication, sort of the same thing you see in the
wireless and telco space.

-Jim P.


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