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I don't have a stake in it (don't barely use Docker), and don't know all the details of what happened or who it affects how (I was, fruitlessly, hoping to get t
by jrochkind1 4y ago
I don't have a stake in it (don't barely use Docker), and don't know all the details of what happened or who it affects how (I was, fruitlessly, hoping to get them when I clicked on this piece), and this still reads like a piece by someone who is friends with executives at Docker and set out to defend them.
His basic point seems to be that this decision wasn't about Docker's revenue, because it's effect would only be a "rounding error on [their] income statement."
If the cancellation of free teams plan isn't expected to have any non-trivial effect on their income statement... doesn't it just make them look even less competent for taking on so much bad PR for... what? Why _did_ they do it? OP says everyone knows taking away free things makes people really mad, that's no surprise. So if not for affects on income statement, then... what?
The OP argument is... because they thought the plan wasn't serving users well? I mean, I guess.... but the users would seem to disagree? And the OP doesn't really specify what about it wasn't "serving users well", just that Docker execs said so.
At any rate, the way a company behaves if it wants to look like it's in a stable position, and making sober careful decisions about long-term directions -- especially if they want customers to believe they are not about income but about serving users well -- would be having a much longer deprecation period than 30 days. Perhaps ending creation of new accounts in the deprecated category, but allowing existing accounts for a year maybe.
- rightbyte 4y ago> this still reads like a piece by someone who is friends with executives at Docker at set out to defend them. My thoughts exactly. It is a smug "here is your 0$ refund". The reason sysadmins' blood start boiling is really that Docker change anything at all that breaks their set-ups. The writing was on the wall Docker when started to castrate Docker Desktop really. There is no way an org can make such a user hostile move and not be rotten.
- quijoteuniv 4y agoWhat a strange article, there is something off with it, i feel like having a shower.
- lobstrosity420 4y agoI’ve never been the same after my company’s marketing department gave a presentation in which they, very matter of fact, boasted about how they wrote fluff pieces that got published on respectable publications under a journalist’s name with zero disclaimers. I’m not accusing anyone but it would surprise me very little if that was the case here.
- quijoteuniv 4y agoOk, i guess in the author’s defence, he is not really hiding it “ Matt Asay runs partner marketing at MongoDB.”
- thayne 4y agoI don't think it is about increasing revenue or better serving users. It is about cutting costs, and no longer having to support that plan.