News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation. Parent comment

Re:Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation by hueving on Saturday August 19, 2017 @01:39AM (#15051873)
Are investors seriously that stupid? VMware doesn't offer open source implementations so they aren't even close to the same class of business.

If containers impact VMware, it's because they are free and most of the revenue will not flow to docker.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation by Vinnl on Saturday August 19, 2017 @05:38AM (#15052541)
It's not about revenue flowing to Docker, it's about revenue no longer flowing to VMWare and thus VMWare having to act (by e.g. buying Docker).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation by Drdrdrq on Saturday August 19, 2017 @05:07PM (#15055609)
Except that buying Docker will accomplish nothing. The genie is out of the bottle. And VMware is arguably in a better position to profit from it because of their ties to customers.
[ Parent | on HN ]