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C&W Bails Out

Posted by michael on from the last-one-out-turn-off-the-lights dept.

norskode writes "Not much to go on yet, but it seems that Cable & Wireless is bailing out of their US operations. This is a big provider of IP pipes, and they run the data centers they bought from the failed Exodus folks. There are a LOT of sites that live in their data centers, but no word yet on the disposition of those facilities."

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  1. right off the top of my list... by redlum · · Score: 5, Informative

    A traceroute to google shows it's using cw.net and exodus.net

    This could be bad...

  2. Looks like Slashdot will be moving... by MrBadbar · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to Netcraft, slashdot.org itself is using IPs owned by C&W.

  3. No Suprise Here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a current C&W employee..

    I have to say there really isn't any suprise to this. While its hard for any business to make a profit off of low-margin web-hosting, C&W was an ill-suited company to try and do so.

    During the past ~2 years since it acquired both Digital Island and Exodus, C&W business model has been to lay-off people who knew what they were doing, and promote those who didn't (usually to the VP level).

    The whole business is run by a very top-heavy management structure who have no interest whatsoever in doing what is good for the company. Instead upper management have only been concerned with building their own empires, even if duplicate functions existed elsewhere in the company.

    There is only so long a company can exist with such an attitude, and C&W has hit the end of the road.