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Docker never had a viable business model, this was obvious to everyone in the space since day 1.

• nickstinemates 7y ago
  I disagree. From the inside, there were a few obvious business models. The reality was bifurcation of effort and lack of alignment.
  • sagichmal 7y ago
    From the outside, there weren’t. App Store model with Docker Hub was never going anywhere without an entrenched platform, which you couldn’t possibly build because you didn’t have the talent (no offense at all here, the market was and is insane) and even if you had, there was too much competition from other players. Licensing wasn’t feasible, not enough value-add, and too many viable alternatives waiting in the wings for you to overplay that hand. And any secondary market that showed promise was already swarming with other companies “integrating” with Docker and making their own value props. What alternatives were there? I never saw one.