Any source can pay for computers and salaries.
There's nothing strategic about that, and it's important to be strategic in where you go for money We wanted to find investors who would give us credibility in the marketplace, help us recruit customers, and help us find the management expertise we knew we didn't have. What Akamai sells is the cyberspace equivalent of a by-pass route that promises to shuttle data to the people who need it more quickly and more reliably than has been possible to date on the Web. We have 6,000 servers in 335 networks in 54 countries around the world. Seelig defined the terms he used. It's not easy.