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The fact that this article is even choosing to focus on Rackspace as opposed to say linode, asmallorange, prgmr.com, etc. is already a sign that Rackspace has become big enough to be worth talking about. At least so far, apparently they're on the right track. I think they'll be around for a pretty long time even if they never completely crush the other cloud giants.

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It might instead be a sign that Rackspace is a public company, and that Barrons doesn't bother much with privately owned businesses since their audience can't invest.

the problem now is that "merely profitable" companies need to be viciously attacked by companies like Google and Amazon that have flying STOCKS but post no PROFITS. Just "doing their job" and having happy customers isn't good enough if a Wall Street giant needs your business added to it's marketshare so they can avoid some taxes next year.

Ok, true, Amazon has no profits. But Google does. Quite a lot even.

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