Nothing is lost. If you are IT professionals, it's your job to advise clients what to run, not the other way around. I know that when it comes to computers, eve

Nothing is lost. If you are IT professionals, it's your job to advise clients what to run, not the other way around. I know that when it comes to computers, everyone feels like they have something to say, but it's just like any other profession: we are the experts that went to university and have the requisite degrees stemming from our education, we are the experts with the help of our professional experience. Therefore we should be the leading force for our clientele, not the other way around. Customer is king, but that does not preclude or exclude professionals taking the leading role. If your sole business plan revolves around service, banking on a single piece of specific technology, your business is already doomed, as was every IT business before it. History is the teacher of life, and those who do not learn from history stand to repeat it, poorly and with dire consequences. Docker's days are numbered: too many scandals, Google gave up on it. It is only a function f(t) before it goes out of fashion, just like everything else in IT. Post scriptum: why persist on the illumos-zones-ZFS-configuration management with OS packaging constellation? Because it is bullet proof not for months or years, but decades thereafter. It is good business: less maintenance investment means more profit long term, and in business, it is the long game, and not trend pandering which counts. No business survived on trend pandering, for reasons which should be quite obvious. You already unpack Docker, and when I read what all you had to do it was obvious to me that what you are doing is far more expensive than if you had gone the SmartOS-lx branded zone-ZFS route; you could have chosen to do so with the bullet proof substrate that are the lx-brnaded zones, the illumos kernel, and ZFS. The customer in your model is none the wiser anyway but you did not do so, which is illogical, since you take it all apart and custom-deploy it on custom infrastructure anyway. The system engineering and maintenance costs will kill your business long term, not to mention what they will do to each and every one working on that in terms of health and personal life. Babysitting computers and software will never be a profitable position.