Two years is an incredible length of time in this "industry". Look how fast Amazon are rolling out features compared to Rackspace (their current closest rival). Rackspace are losing the arms race. IMV they simply don't have the cloud engineering resources to build (hence the "tom sawyer's fence" which is OpenStack), so they buy. A good strategy if you have the cash.
I can see Rackspace extracting the monitoring features/code from cloudkick and add it to their cloud servers control panel, and leave CK going as it's own entity. That's pretty much what they did with Slicehost iirc.
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Two years is an incredible length of time in this "industry". Look how fast Amazon are rolling out features compared to Rackspace (their current closest rival). Rackspace are losing the arms race. IMV they simply don't have the cloud engineering resources to build (hence the "tom sawyer's fence" which is OpenStack), so they buy. A good strategy if you have the cash.
I can see Rackspace extracting the monitoring features/code from cloudkick and add it to their cloud servers control panel, and leave CK going as it's own entity. That's pretty much what they did with Slicehost iirc.