Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M

Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by gtirloni on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:17PM (#21527418)

Unless they are downsizing to 10-20 people, I don't see how that generates enough revenue to keep the lights on.

It's weird. Assuming Docker Enterprise was keeping the lights on, why would you sell your cash cow? Maybe the price was too good to turn down. But now Docker Inc finds itself in the same shoes as other companies trying to monetize open source without a platform.

If this means we'll get to pay for Docker on the desktop AND it'll get improvements, I'm all for it. But it's a tough situation nowadays (nobody expects to pay for most developer tools).

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by zapita on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:51PM (#21530611)

Reading between the lines, it's pretty obvious that the enterprise business did NOT generate enough revenue to keep the lights on.

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by gtirloni on Thursday November 14, 2019 @07:52AM (#21534968)

And what does exactly?

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by zapita on Thursday November 14, 2019 @11:44AM (#21536868)

Funding from investors betting on the future value of a business built on the huge user base of Docker’s free products.

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