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The real question is why Sun didn't succeed in leveraging this technology with their implementation of zones.

• wmf 13y ago
  Because Solaris isn't Linux and nobody got fired for using Linux. Even Ian Murdock couldn't make Solaris into Linux.
• Procrastes 13y ago
  As a former Sun guy, I can say it's because extracting value wasn't something we were very good at or really gave much weight. From Grid to Java to Solaris 10 Zones and ZFS, Jini, RFID we mostly just made cool stuff and then... went and made other cool stuff. We had very little adult supervision.
• edbyrne 13y ago
  To be honest - I think it's a timing thing - virtualization wasn't popular initially but VMWare did a great marketing job. Then any hyper-visor became acceptable. Now - VPS-style containers are becoming acceptable. IE: Docker.
  • shykes 13y ago
    Timing is definitely part of it. Being too early can kill you. If you think your idea is awesome but too early, my advice is to keep trying for as long as it takes. Docker was not my first attempt at solving this particular problem :) [1] [2] [3] [1] https://bitbucket.org/Foi3GraS/dotcloud-fork/commits/1 https://bitbucket.org/Foi3GraS/dotcloud-fork/commits/1 [2] https://github.com/dotcloud/cloudlets/commit/0af885a5266fba79ac99a79d214f14be05946ffb https://github.com/dotcloud/cloudlets/commit/0af885a5266fba7... [3] https://bitbucket.org/dotcloud/vm2vm/commits/2a34438989fbff034d0034b4bea255c61a6238e8 https://bitbucket.org/dotcloud/vm2vm/commits/2a34438989fbff0...