Summary
Rackspace is an IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas, with eight data centers across the U.S.A., the U.K., and Hong Kong. The Fortune Magazine's "Top 100 Best Companies to Work For 2008" placed Rackspace as #32 the first year that Rackspace applied for consideration. With more than half a million U.S. dollars in assets and almost 3,000 employees, it is a solidly growing company, known for its transparency. Rackspace is responsible for hosting some of the world's most popular SAAS platforms and cloud services. Rackspace chose TYPO3 to run their european websites because of its feature-richness and open source license. As a hosting company Rackspace had always been very close to the open source community.
