Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
by robszumski on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:44PM
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"Why not sell off all the bits?" is the only clear part of this. No one wants to acquire all of the baggage of a 10 year old company. Dozens of investors, two major pivots, many rounds of funding. Hence taking 90% of the company...the good stuff.
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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M
by tracker1 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:37PM
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Might be a good idea to steer the rest of Docker (the open-source, less commercial parts) towards CNCF and/or Linux Foundation as a subsidiary. It would be a better fit, and probably grow better as a baseline.
The $35m could keep the organization running and revise itself. Though not sure what constraints are on existing funding, revenue streams or what was and wasn't sold off there are left.