On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 09:42 AM, Greg Pelcak wrote:
No, Akamai (symbol AKAM) has not gone bust. Yes, their business model for the past few years has been as a Web accelerator, a kind of local cache of content.On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 08:52 AM, Harmon Seaver wrote:Most of the experience I have with Akamai is with them hosting high-traffic websites with geographically distributed servers. I thought they had mostly gone bust, but it's possible they're still doing it. A lot of websites a couple years ago talked about being "akamaized", meaning that they had their site hosted by akamai to allow for good server response time all around the country.Anyone know anything about Akamai (www.akamai.com, also akamaitechnologies.com)?
Speculations on the list this morning that they plan to sell their services to the government are worth looking into...they would not be the first company to propose selling Web browsing profiles of users. I'm not saying this is a plan, and it's probably more likely that the hits being seen are unrelated to any such plan.
--Tim May
