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Love it. Always thought "Docker" was precisely the sort of thing that was destined to be a great and useful tool and a terrible kabillion dollar business.
by jrm4 5y ago
Love it. Always thought "Docker" was precisely the sort of thing that was destined to be a great and useful tool and a terrible kabillion dollar business.
- andrewstuart2 5y agoIt's the kind of thing that was a really killer way of bringing a half dozen open technologies into one easy-to-use tool, and despite the general simplicity of it, there wasn't much reason for quite a while to try to build anything better. Not that it wouldn't have been pretty easy to do, but if you did, most people would have said "but why?" And now Docker, Inc. has gone on to answer the "why" for us.
- elsonrodriguez 5y agoThe best revenue stream available to Docker was the numerous, generous buyout offers they had in the early days.
- jrm4 5y agoDid they? Like Oracle or Microsoft or something? I could see that.