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Re:Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years by danieldk on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:09PM (#34373207)
Right, $5/$9/$24 is nothing compared to a developer salary. So if developers switch to Podman, fixing the occasional glitch is going to be more expensive than a Docker subscription. E.g. a while ago there was a bug (caused by a qemu update) that didn't allow Podman to run when the VM used >=4GiB memory [1]. I can imagine that such an issue would result in a large amount of wasted time for triaging and working around this issue.

Not meant negatively towards Podman, maintaining such a package in a constantly moving ecosystem is hard. The point is more that you pay Docker to do the extensive testing for you, so that the work-stopping issues are ironed out before they roll out to customers.

[1] https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/14303

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Re:Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:43PM (#34373628)
> Right, $5/$9/$24 is nothing compared to a developer salary.

And yet there are horror stories of finance not approving purchases that would significantly improve productivity.

While obviously greater than the $5/9/24 you bring up, I've heard of companies not wanting to buy a second monitor for their engineers, whereas I'd wager the productivity gain would pay for itself in only a couple months.

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