<i>Linode will continue to operate as usual for the time being and the company says that Akamai has “no intention of changing what has made us successful.”</i><p>Right. How many times have we heard some variation of this after an acquisition? And how many times has it <i>actually</i> panned out that way? I'm pretty sure the answer to that second question is, to a first approximation, "zero".<p>I had recently started migrating all of my stuff off of Linode to a cheaper alternative anyway, and this just makes me that much more glad. I really don't see things with Linode getting <i>better</i> as a result of this acquisition. Does anybody? Other than the marketing-gobbledygook writer at Akamai?