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I think they just cashed out; enterprise had to pay, for now, while evaluating and migrating to free alternatives. I don't think it will be a sustainable growth

• hnarn 4y ago
  My point exactly, I see very little proof that this is without a doubt a “reboot” of the company from a financial standpoint, it looks more to me like finding income out of desperation while doing nothing to improve the base value prop. But I could be wrong, I don’t wish for Docker to fail more than anyone else.
  • jitl 4y ago
    The essential maxim in all the startup literature is “you’re not charging enough”. That was very much the case for Docker Desktop. At the current price there’s gonna be churn but that’s the case with anything customers pay for.
• jitl 4y ago
  For a 100-300 developer company running macs, I don’t think the current “free” alternatives would be less expensive than paying for Docker Desktop. I managed wrappers around Vagrant when Airbnb was that size and boy howdy did the whole org pay for every bit of the quality difference between Virtualbox+Vagrant and the Docker Desktop of today. I would rather buy a reliable GUI for fiddling and resetting the VM, wrangling file shares etc over implementing it myself. Maybe Colima will get much better but today doesn’t seem like a good choice unless you’re at 500+ devs and want to spend Dev Infra headcount polishing it up & supporting it.
  • ilyt 4y ago
    Well, check in a year when alternatives will have both userbase and time to develop.