Similar to siblings, our medium sized enterprise has a procurement process best described as ‘avoid if possible’, with the last product we onboarded taking over

Similar to siblings, our medium sized enterprise has a procurement process best described as ‘avoid if possible’, with the last product we onboarded taking over 15 months from start to finish for around a $50k annual cost. Our likely move will be away from docker because we can’t afford to be paralysed for that long waiting for bureaucrats to make a decision. If docker wants to play like this they will need to be willing to partner with a ‘real’ services company who is already on a range of procurement panels to get a foot in the door, at least in my part of the world. If we could pay this as part of our MSA with a vendor we already use, $50k a year wouldn’t be so bad, but adding a new vendor and pushing that uphill? Not likely for us.