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It's been my impression that they're angling for either a VMWare or Microsoft acquisition. They both like buying things that live at the edge of enterprise-y a
by notatoad 9y ago
It's been my impression that they're angling for either a VMWare or Microsoft acquisition. They both like buying things that live at the edge of enterprise-y and trendy.
- dvanduzer 9y agoI know what you meant, but I think it's helpful to talk about "trendy" in the context that matters: something popular that will either widen the competitive moat for existing customers, or bring in new customers that are soon to graduate into wanting enterprise support from a VMWare or a Microsoft. VMWare is an interesting possibility! Docker seems like it would cannibalize too much of their existing product line, but VMWare's existing products are already kind of self-cannibalizing. (This is why many engineers find the enterprise market so confusing. Nobody differentiates products well, because past a certain size, networks of human relationships [sales, support, etc.] matter more than branding.) But from that "good for us" perspective, VMWare looks as bad as Oracle these days. I would still "vote" for Microsoft.
- tnolet 9y agoDocker would fit nicely Microsoft’s Azure container offensive and new found love for all things Linux. They tried Mesosphere, but that didn’t work out.
- random3 9y agoCan you elaborate about what has been tried and what hasn't worked out?
- tnolet 9y agoMicrosoft made an offer for Mesosphere, but they turned it down [0]. These deals are of course never that "snappy". They probably had long and hard negotiations, but the deal never happened. 0: http://www.businessinsider.com/florian-leibert-mesosphere-ceo-reveals-50-million-run-rate-2017-11?international=true&r=US&IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/florian-leibert-mesosphere-ce...