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It effectively has been. Oracle, Sun, FreeBSD, RunC, OCI None are _as popular_ as docker. But many offer more features, or a flatly superior product. Docker
by valarauca1 9y ago
It effectively has been.
Oracle, Sun, FreeBSD, RunC, OCI
None are _as popular_ as docker. But many offer more features, or a flatly superior product.
Docker _isnt good_. Docker is popular. Actually their constant breaking of compatibility makes me wonder why everyone continues to tolerate it.
- contingencies 9y agoDocker _isnt good_. Docker is popular. Which means a popularity-based valuation is a house of cards.
- SmirkingRevenge 9y agoMaybe. But there's also something to be said for generating popularity and mind share intentionally. It seems Docker has been very good at that part (and pretty good at the technical side too). Many wonderful, technically-superior-than-alternatives projects languish and die in obscurity, while its inferior counterpart wins the popularity/marketing contest.
- contingencies 9y agoThe businesses that win in that way (VHS vs beta) do so because there is money flowing. It is unclear that with docker they really have much income, and enterprise software projects that perhaps make up most of their income are frequently rewritten with new toolsets. Therefore, it is uncertain there will be commercial traction in 5 years... particularly because docker has (according to this thread) already lost the open source feature set battle (targeting a demographic which, incidentally, tends to shun marketing). Hence, house of cards.