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Re:Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2... by dilyevsky on Sunday November 24, 2024 @06:20PM (#42231481)
That was always weird to me they opted for freemium cli instead of enterprise paas play. Maybe it was just too early
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Re:Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2... by smt88 on Sunday November 24, 2024 @09:41PM (#42232730)
My guess is the margins were really bad for a PaaS. It's expensive to build on top of other people's clouds.
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Re:Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (2... by mst on Monday November 25, 2024 @10:34AM (#42237099)
There's also the issue that building an effective enterprise sales organisation is a whole Thing and if you believe you can achieve profitability via a different path then the temptation to file the enterprise approach under "I have no idea how to do this and also I would rather not" is probably pretty strong.

(this is in no way a comment about what the right decision would have been, only musing on an additional reason the decision might have gone the way it did)

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