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Re:Docker is Dead by dvanduzer on Sunday December 31, 2017 @10:40PM (#16044550)
An earlier draft of that comment had "not sure either company would bid very hard" phrased as "not sure either company has the financials to support" so I looked up RHT's market cap, saw it was in the 10s of billions, remembered GitHub is still privately held, and decided to stop the detailed research at that point.

Good catch, though. GitHub is a candidate because their core business model, like Most Linux Distributors, is built around aggregating and re-distributing open source software in a trustworthy fashion. (And support contracts around that.)

No acquisition is also a possibility. Neither Docker the tech nor Docker the company is too big to fail right now.

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Re:Docker is Dead by DrNemski on Sunday December 31, 2017 @10:55PM (#16044596)
> No acquisition is also a possibility.

Oh my yes, the quiet release of CRI-O by RedHat and Google recently was a pivotal moment. You can run a container orchestration environment in production without anything from Docker the company. You still need it to build and maybe host images but the rest is pluggable.

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Re:Docker is Dead by dvanduzer on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:42PM (#16044747)
Have you tried bazel.build by chance?
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