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I wonder if Docker Inc will learn from this.
by flyinprogrammer 5y ago
I wonder if Docker Inc will learn from this.
- easton 5y agoThey probably can't. Every other business model they've tried hasn't worked. Their only other option is a buyout, and I can only assume Microsoft hasn't offered them enough money yet, because otherwise I assume that would have happened years ago.
- oneplane 5y agoThey won't because it's not the same situation and not the issue at hand. If you want to make a comparison: Docker is more like Sun. They will have three options: 1. Go bankrupt 2. Get bought 3. Find a way to make money
- miked85 5y agoAren't those options pretty much identical for every company?
- secondaryacct 5y agoIt's missing: continue what we're doing since it working. My company already found a way to make money, we don't need to be bought and are far from bankrupcy.
- oneplane 5y agoThat doesn't work for docker since they are on a decline and the business isn't sustainable as it is anymore. So they are on a bankruptcy trajectory already.
- oneplane 5y agoNo, you can also be profitable (or healthy) as-is and keep humming along. In docker's case they are on the bankruptcy trajectory so now they have to make choices to change that trajectory (or select option 1 and go bankrupt).
- miked85 5y agoThat seems like option 3: Find a way to make money
- Pet_Ant 5y agoBut what else is Docker to do? It feels like some companies should be bought out jointly by the tech giants and turned into charities since they have no business model but provide excellent value to the ecosystem that isn’t capturable.