A lot of companies complain that they can’t hire enough people with the skills they need. This is lazy thinking. Graham Weston, the cofounder and chairman of managed hosting and cloud computing company Rackspace, based in San Antonio, Texas, proudly showed me Open Cloud Academy, the vocational school his company founded to create the workforce he needs to hire. He told me that Rackspace hires about half of the graduates; the rest go to work in other Internet businesses.
