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Docker was a spinoff of an internal tool used to build exactly the type of PaaS you're describing. It was like a better Heroku and I loved it, but they shut it
by smt88 2y ago
Docker was a spinoff of an internal tool used to build exactly the type of PaaS you're describing. It was like a better Heroku and I loved it, but they shut it down when they focused on commercializing Docker itself.
- rudasn 2y agodot cloud yes? I was surprised when they shut that down too.
- dilyevsky 2y agoThat was always weird to me they opted for freemium cli instead of enterprise paas play. Maybe it was just too early
- smt88 2y agoMy guess is the margins were really bad for a PaaS. It's expensive to build on top of other people's clouds.
- mst 2y agoThere's also the issue that building an effective enterprise sales organisation is a whole Thing and if you believe you can achieve profitability via a different path then the temptation to file the enterprise approach under "I have no idea how to do this and also I would rather not" is probably pretty strong. (this is in no way a comment about what the right decision would have been, only musing on an additional reason the decision might have gone the way it did)