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Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Post by tyingq »

vowelless wrote: post #14
skeptic2718 wrote: post #7

Docker is being used to cure diseases, keep planes in the air, to keep soldiers safe from landmines, to power the world’s largest financial networks and institutions Why do this?

Wow. But I want to give them a fair opportunity to justify this statement. Can someone give me examples of diseases being cured via docker, or planes being kept in the air (etc)

"planes being kept in the air"

I assume they mean "minimize time stuck on the tarmac" vs "literally flight critical", but I doubt even that.

The former would imply that something like dispatch functions are in production running on docker. I suppose that's possible, but it's not an area that lends itself to tech that's not very solidly proven for the space.

Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Post by pthreads »

phonon wrote: post #12
tyingq wrote: post #3

My kneejerk reaction is that a senior leader from Concur, then SAP, is going to buzzword bingo and "enterprisify" docker into something very different. That's probably not fair though. Concur is a pretty big success story, sold for $8B, and it appears some good decisions drove that.

Time for "The Box".

Spoiler alert! Steve Singh was Jack Barker all along!

Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Post by jstanley »

skeptic2718 wrote: post #7

Docker is being used to cure diseases, keep planes in the air, to keep soldiers safe from landmines, to power the world’s largest financial networks and institutions Why do this?

It probably just means some company that works in pharmaceuticals uses Docker for something, and another company that works in aerospace uses Docker for something, etc.

Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Post by sz4kerto »

skeptic2718 wrote: post #7

Docker is being used to cure diseases, keep planes in the air, to keep soldiers safe from landmines, to power the world’s largest financial networks and institutions Why do this?

> keep planes in the air

'We really need to land, but the container responsible for landing navigation has crashed and I can't restart it because Docker complains that the endpoint is already registered on the overlay network'

'Just delete /var/lib/docker and re-pull.'

Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Post by aub3bhat »

Docker was probably a victim of its own success, with so many containers & orchestration systems popping up (CoreOS, Kubernetes, etc.), it became harder for them to capture enterprise market that they had taken for granted. Worse the impression that I got was somehow Docker with its great usability was for amateurs and not for enterprise users (where most of the revenue is expected to come from).

Anyway I think Docker is a great revolutionary product living up to the vision that was initially presented. However it badly needs enterprise adoption to remain viable, all other container systems suck in usability aspects. Hopefully this drives more revenue while keeping the core product still easy to use.

Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Post by Jdam »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #8
goseeastarwar wrote: post #2

Surprised there wasn't also the typical "want to spend time with family" part to cover the fact that the CEO was fired and a board seat was his consolation prize. If you want to raise $180M without a business model to become a fabled unicorn, you had better know what you're doing. Docker just got a lot less interesting with an ex-Concur exec in charge, but it'll probably exit within 2-3 years and make the investors h…

Guesses to who would acquire it? My money is on HP or Oracle.

Considering the great ties that Concur had with MS - Microsoft!

Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Post by monkey2005 »

tyingq wrote: post #3

My kneejerk reaction is that a senior leader from Concur, then SAP, is going to buzzword bingo and "enterprisify" docker into something very different. That's probably not fair though. Concur is a pretty big success story, sold for $8B, and it appears some good decisions drove that.

Docker already tried to go the enterprise route but they're getting killed in the market.

The small number of enterprises that are doing containers are going to Kubernetes for technical credibility or Redhat OpenShift for enterprise credibility.

Instead of trying to be a platform company for the enterprise, Docker should have just licensed and supported the Docker engine to the mass market (their one moat) and absolutely cleaned up.

Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Post by fs111 »

skeptic2718 wrote: post #7

Docker is being used to cure diseases, keep planes in the air, to keep soldiers safe from landmines, to power the world’s largest financial networks and institutions Why do this?

The thing is that all these things can be done w/o docker at all. It may make it simpler (for some definition of "simpler"), but it is not necessary to do any of these things. Now the Linux kernel on which docker is built OTOH is probably not so easy to take away.

Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Post by monkey2005 »

aub3bhat wrote: post #25

Docker was probably a victim of its own success, with so many containers & orchestration systems popping up (CoreOS, Kubernetes, etc.), it became harder for them to capture enterprise market that they had taken for granted. Worse the impression that I got was somehow Docker with its great usability was for amateurs and not for enterprise users (where most of the revenue is expected to come from). Anyway I think Docke…

Docker just needed to license and support the engine rather than trying to build a crappy enterprise platform a'la Cloud Foundry.

The Docker engine is the one thing which nobody else can easily replicate.

They would have smashed it in the mass market at something like $100/yr/node.

Re: Steve Singh will become Docker’s new CEO

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Post by krallistic »

johnbellone wrote: post #20
toomuchtodo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guesses to who would acquire it? My money is on HP or Oracle.

RedHat

I highly doubt that given the history between both companies... But would be funny to force a docker dev to merge systemd pr's...
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