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Who should I contact with more questions

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Tricia, our director of customer communications is the best person to contact

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Rumors of an IPO have been swirling recently

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For our customers (and hopefully you, soon), it means there's only one number to call and one company to deal with

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And the level of respect that we have for the people at Rackspace only adds fuel to our fire

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The company manages and maintains the email software and hosting infrastructure, freeing up personnel resources and eliminating the need for organizations to purchase email-related hardware, software, and security services—all for a fraction of the cost of purchasing and managing email services in-house

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The company just hired a new chief financial officer on March 31

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And no matter when you call the Mosso number, we promise there will be a real human on the phone to help.

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About Webmail.us Webmail.us, along with its growing community of private-label reseller partners, provides more than 70,000 small, medium, and geographically dispersed companies with corporate email hosting services

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In January, it shifted strategyto emphasize its utility computing business model.

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Is Rackspace committed to serving the business market

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We own and develop everything--from the systems to the control panel software to the process of buying a domain name

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They have acquired us and we are now in the process of merging our two businesses

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It's not that we think the agencies and freelancers building The Web (sorry, The Web 2.0) are scared of a little hard work

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And speaking of innovation, why weren't the hosting companies stepping up to the plate

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But I think most of the companies I just mentioned are indeed trying to build businesses, not features to flip." Of course, Webmail.us has just been "flipped" in October 2007 - but it's taken 2-3 years of slow but steady user and revenue growth

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Founded in 1999, Webmail.us is headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia and was just named the 217th fastest-growing, privately held company in America by Inc.Magazine.To learn more, please visit www.webmail.us or call 866.392.3336 x214

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Congratulations to Pat and team for a job well done.

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Unlike other companies that sell technology-based solutions to businesses, we both believe that great service is what really matters

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For us, that means we can innovate literally everywhere

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Yes, Rackspace is 100% committed to serving businesses, not consumers

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We've put the guys who develop the software and the admins who watch over the cluster right next to the 24-hour support team, so we all learn from each other

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Rackspace Managed Hosting is a recognized leader in the global managed hosting market

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The company's mission critical software applications are housed in carrier-grade data centers to ensure maximum uptime

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We both worked at Rackspace as our day jobs, so we knew those folks well.) We took the Mosso vision to Rackspace's leadership team, who agreed to fund development of the new venture, and lend Rackspace's expertise towards engineering and perfecting the platform

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Our Secret Sauce What we think makes Mosso's Hosting Cloud so compelling is how deeply integrated all the pieces are

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So in many ways Webmail.us is a web 2.0 success story, even though not at the scale of a Zimbra or JotSpot

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"Web-delivered business-class services remove the IT administration burden from companies that lack large IT staffs and/or want to concentrate more fully on their core business functions,” says Melanie Posey, research director, IDC."Hosting companies that meet this need and expand their portfolios to include key on-demand functionality such as managed messaging can differentiate themselves from competitors

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Both companies see the world in the same way

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The only ones we could find were either asking developers to share a server crammed full of other sites or get their own servers or VPSes and figure out how to keep them online

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CEO Pat Matthews has a post about the sale, noting that "the market is really going to open up, leaders are going to emerge, and followers are going to fall behind." He said that Webmail.us decided to sell to "make sure we're positioned to be the leader in our space" (which is business web mail)

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We last covered Webmail.us in August last year as part of an overview of the web email market

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Also recently Webmail.us made the Inc 500 list as the #217 fastest growing private company in America

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Rackspace realizes the market shift towards IT hosting and the mission critical nature of business-class email

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Are you still going to be a business email specialist.Yes.In fact, we are going to maintain our own unique website and brand identity and our entire staff will continue to be 100% focused on business email hosting

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No, our entire leadership team is going to remain intact

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Today we are making the biggest announcement in the history of our company

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Both companies are filled with amazing, passionate people that love what they do

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Rackspace is going to make a heavy investment in the mail business

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The last time Web hosting provider Rackspace filed for an IPO was back in March, 2000, at the peak of the first Internet bubble

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There are no filings yet with the SEC, but press releases touting its revenues have mysteriously been stripped from the company’s site

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About Rackspace Managed Hosting A recognized leader in the global managed hosting market, Rackspace Managed Hosting delivers enterprise-level managed services to businesses of all sizes

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We share their vision for what email and IT hosting will look like in the future

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This will allow us to more rapidly develop our products and services, strengthen our email system infrastructure, and bring Fanatical Support to our customers

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They have a large amount of expertise with advanced Windows and Linux configurations, and their Zero-Downtime Network has lived up to its name for over four years

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Perhaps as soon as tomorrow or Monday, according to one tipster who tells us that email to that effect are circulating inside the company

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At that point Webmail.us provided email hosting services to more than 23,000 small-medium businesses

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Are you going to remain in Blacksburg, Virginia

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Bill, Kevin, and I are as committed as ever

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A major outage last November caused by a traffic accident near its Dallas data center was noticed across the Web

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