Without regard to the merits of the matter, it is commonly reported that the Justice Department has backed off defending DOMA, as was mentionedinthearticle above.
The investment in and lead time to build data centers was mentionedas a potential risk inthe original article, because data centers are expensive and Rackspace had commented in an earnings call that they must plan two years in advance for buildouts.
Asmentionedin my previous article, the lead investor in this offering was billionaire pharmaceutical investor Dr. Phillip Frost, the current chairman of Israeli drug giant Teva Pharmaceuticals.