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"Why not sell off all the bits?" is the only clear part of this. No one wants to acquire all of the baggage of a 10 year old company. Dozens of investors, two m
by robszumski 7y ago
"Why not sell off all the bits?" is the only clear part of this. No one wants to acquire all of the baggage of a 10 year old company. Dozens of investors, two major pivots, many rounds of funding. Hence taking 90% of the company...the good stuff.
- tracker1 7y agoMight be a good idea to steer the rest of Docker (the open-source, less commercial parts) towards CNCF and/or Linux Foundation as a subsidiary. It would be a better fit, and probably grow better as a baseline. The $35m could keep the organization running and revise itself. Though not sure what constraints are on existing funding, revenue streams or what was and wasn't sold off there are left.