> If Docker was about to be acquired, why would there be any interest in raising a round? Build-up a widely recognized brand. Have a complete offering (all the

> If Docker was about to be acquired, why would there be any interest in raising a round? Build-up a widely recognized brand. Have a complete offering (all the way up to mgmt of containers, as the picture shows). Stay neutral, support all platforms equally well, for some more time (before one of the platforms may buy it). Probably Docker is project a really ambitious picture of wanting to be the big-blue-platform-in-the-cloud in 5-10 years; a picture that --with enough series of funding-- may not even be so far out. > dilutes everyone for no purpose. That's not smart. Dilute 10-40% for a company that will soon be making several times the profits; that is very acceptable. If Docker would get there "in time" by itself, it would still make no sense. But I think Docker knows they need to keep up building out their biz, or they will end up open-source-zoned: everyone knows and uses your product, but you make no serious profits. Getting open-source-zoned is not a bad thing... Just not a straight ticket to the millions.