Joyent's failure was chasing the latest agile, devops, micro kernel, etc. hotness that was taking off in the valley. They completely ignored the fact that the

Joyent's failure was chasing the latest agile, devops, micro kernel, etc. hotness that was taking off in the valley. They completely ignored the fact that the big companies with huge budgets are full of people who don't give a shit about SmartOS resource grids and just want easy and similar enough to what they already know/run. People tried to label Amazon Lightsail as a "DigitalOcean killer", it was really a way to lower the bar of intimidation for the IT guys at paper mills and car seat factories.