Hi Ed,

> Lanham Napier, president and CEO of Rackspace, on CNBC

> yesterday talking about cloud computing and what it means for

> businesses.

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> http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1498260012&play=1

> ( -or- http://j.mp/cb00mH )

>

> And is it just me, or does Lanham sound like George W.

> Bush after too much coffee? ;-)

Not exactly the best orator, but being out there and making the rounds,

stating his very enticing case, should turn out good for Rackspace sales and

stock.

Sounded real good:

Q: "all I need is a screen?"

A: "all you need is a pipe connecting you to us"

But I wonder how many devils are in the details. Would a scenario be like

this:

- my customer decides to go with cloud computing, and signs up for a

RackSpace account (some sort of trial or starter system, presumably cheap)

- To setup the customer, RackSpace configures 'x' number of virtual Windows

machines for the customer, one for each authorized login

(machine/device/person) that will be logging in (each having his/her own

desktop and applications available and running). Some or all of these

machines are always running (swapped out) on the server, waiting for

customer/users/other connections to login (so new logins don't have to boot

the machine).

- Each of my customer's users get Windows configurations that include all of

the software that user normally runs, except it's all installed and

maintained on a RackSpace machine.

- Customer (and myself) would have FTP access to the RackSpace machine so we

can install products and maintenance. Or is this something RackSpace wants

to do (and changes would go through RackSpace)?

- The customer's users connect to their RackSpace machines using VNC or ? to

connect the application and see it's desktop on a PC, dumb terminal, PDA,

ipad, etc.

I can't help but wonder if RackSpace has, or plans to have, an IBM Z/OS

machine in it's cloud?

Bill

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> -- Ed Leafe

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