As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
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Re: As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
#2It’s really amazing docker isn’t more valuable, it has completely revolutionized software development. They just failed to pull in the enterprise cash in a meaningful way.
Re: As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
#3It’s really amazing docker isn’t more valuable, it has completely revolutionized software development. They just failed to pull in the enterprise cash in a meaningful way.
Exhibit A is showing the difference beween producing value and profit
Re: As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
#4It’s really amazing docker isn’t more valuable, it has completely revolutionized software development. They just failed to pull in the enterprise cash in a meaningful way.
I think it's an issue of monetization. The things that underpin Docker are all open source kernel features of Linux that were being worked on separately anyways.
Docker's value here is in wrapping that up into a nice useable package and offering a centralized repository. How much value does that actually add and more importantly, how do they monetize that?
A lot of this kind of tech work winds up this way.
Re: As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
#5I thought Docker was losing momentum? I guess good for them for raising an extra money.
Re: As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
#6“Gains momentum”?
This new valuation is a down round right?
Everyone knows there is little value in a container runtime. The value is in orchestration (k8s). There are so many other runtimes these days.
Re: As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
#7It’s really amazing docker isn’t more valuable, it has completely revolutionized software development. They just failed to pull in the enterprise cash in a meaningful way.
I think it's an issue of monetization. The things that underpin Docker are all open source kernel features of Linux that were being worked on separately anyways. Docker's value here is in wrapping that up into a nice useable package and offering a centralized repository. How much value does that actually add and more importantly, how do they monetize that? A lot of this kind of tech work winds up this way.
I wouldn't even say that the problem is that it is only leveraging cgroups.
They grew too fast before they know how to commercialize it, if they had a payment model from the beginning this wouldn't have happened imo
Re: As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
#8It’s really amazing docker isn’t more valuable, it has completely revolutionized software development. They just failed to pull in the enterprise cash in a meaningful way.
I think it's an issue of monetization. The things that underpin Docker are all open source kernel features of Linux that were being worked on separately anyways. Docker's value here is in wrapping that up into a nice useable package and offering a centralized repository. How much value does that actually add and more importantly, how do they monetize that? A lot of this kind of tech work winds up this way.
Absolutely, but ElasticSearch is a $9b company, and there are many examples of companies that are built off just wrapping open source functionality. In fact thats a preferred business model in many ways.
Docker just seemed unable to produce products that enterprises would open their pocket books for. Their new pricing model around dockerhub/desktop may work
Re: As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
#9“Gains momentum”? This new valuation is a down round right? Everyone knows there is little value in a container runtime. The value is in orchestration (k8s). There are so many other runtimes these days.
No, very much an up round.
Re: As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation
#10It’s really amazing docker isn’t more valuable, it has completely revolutionized software development. They just failed to pull in the enterprise cash in a meaningful way.
I think it's an issue of monetization. The things that underpin Docker are all open source kernel features of Linux that were being worked on separately anyways. Docker's value here is in wrapping that up into a nice useable package and offering a centralized repository. How much value does that actually add and more importantly, how do they monetize that? A lot of this kind of tech work winds up this way.
Containers really aren't rocket science.
Moreover, it has been amazing to watch how long it has taken the Docker community to move to distroless and more lightweight images.