Re:Docker has a business plan headache
by toomuchtodo on Saturday February 24, 2018 @10:46PM
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The underlying Docker fundamentals are open source (lxc containers). Google gives away better orchestration with Kubernetes (and cloud providers are rapidly adopting it). RedHat bought CoreOS. Doesn’t leave much value prop for Docker.
vSphere is an older, more mature, and more featureful product, but the core value prop is the same: save capital expense by consolidating your services into fewer physical servers, with improved manageability, through virtualization. arguably, docker can enable denser consolidation because virtual machines have typically higher cpu and memory overhead compared to containers. so comparatively maybe docker is underpriced?