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The point I'm trying to make is that this behavior on Red Hat's part is totally reckless. They're not entering any new markets, they're sitting on their laurels

The point I'm trying to make is that this behavior on Red Hat's part is totally reckless. They're not entering any new markets, they're sitting on their laurels. Of course, I think at a high-level they feel that they can cure any shortcomings with acquisitions, but if any of the Docker/CoreOS or whatnot players are sufficiently motivated, have the competitive mindset, and proper funding, Red Hat is totally ripe for the taking, they just have to be really smart about it. I have ideas as to how to proceed, but I'm not going to speculate out in the open. But it's pretty clear to me containerization is a disruption (just not exactly in its present form).

contingencies 12y ago
They're certainly doing containers, just a bit slower than the startup crowd. But let's face it: trying to mine open source infrastructure for monetization potential in an era of increasingly smaller/un-enterprise organizations, cloud apps and mobile devices with multiple identities/organizational affiliations is a fool's game for the most part. Their clients are the exceptions: slow-moving organizations with specific engineering and security requirements like stockmarkets and militaries. Perhaps bringing the benefits of emerging tools like containers to these sorts of clients is what they do best, and there is an argument that the wider open source world has become a parallel one.
- Jweb_Guru 12y ago
  Where do you get that most organizations are smaller and/or "un-enterprise"? I recall recently reading a study that suggested that (1) there were fewer startups of any sort now than there were ten years ago (this includes "normal" small businesses), (2) a higher percentage of startups fail than they did ten years ago, (3) a higher percentage of employees work for large companies than they did ten years ago. If your premise is incorrect, that would suggest that Red Hat is absolutely right to be focusing on its enterprise customer base.

contingencies 12y ago

They're certainly doing containers, just a bit slower than the startup crowd. But let's face it: trying to mine open source infrastructure for monetization potential in an era of increasingly smaller/un-enterprise organizations, cloud apps and mobile devices with multiple identities/organizational affiliations is a fool's game for the most part. Their clients are the exceptions: slow-moving organizations with specific engineering and security requirements like stockmarkets and militaries. Perhaps bringing the benefits of emerging tools like containers to these sorts of clients is what they do best, and there is an argument that the wider open source world has become a parallel one.

Jweb_Guru 12y ago
Where do you get that most organizations are smaller and/or "un-enterprise"? I recall recently reading a study that suggested that (1) there were fewer startups of any sort now than there were ten years ago (this includes "normal" small businesses), (2) a higher percentage of startups fail than they did ten years ago, (3) a higher percentage of employees work for large companies than they did ten years ago. If your premise is incorrect, that would suggest that Red Hat is absolutely right to be focusing on its enterprise customer base.