Loudcloud and Exodus – A tale of two companies

Those who have been following Marc Andreessen’s blog (which btw is a must read for those interested in tech and entrepreneurship) would have read about the recent acquisition of his company Opsware by HP for $1.6 bn. Opsware is actually a reincarnation of an earlier company, Loudcloud, which went bankrupt during the dot com bust. Its fate was similar to another similar company, Exodus Communications, which many of us may have heard in different contexts.