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According to this intro https://docker.wistia.com/medias/mdseh9gv6v, 200 out of 230 people working for Docker Inc are engineers. I like the ratio.

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This "Universal Control Plane" thing looks pretty enterprisy. I have to imagine they are ramping up an enterprise sales team now, with all the org changes that come along with that. This product sort of reminds me of Citrix and Xenserver.

I signed up for UCP and was contacted by a few guys at Docker to go over the features. It was an hour-long presentation. They wanted something like ~$1,500 per node. I'm still not exactly sure what a `node` entails. The salesman seemed extremely technical and was able to answer all of the questions I asked. Too bad their website isn't able to give me the directions for using UCP without me clicking on the "sign-up" button (which now doesn't work because I've already signed up), or else we might be using it to deploy at Adobe.

Ping me if you need any help with Kubernetes, on Google or elsehere; we'd love to help

Hi, I'm the founder of Docker. Sorry that you had an issue on the website. I warned the team of your comment, feel free to email me directly at s@docker.com and I'll put you in touch.

Note that the price you mention is yearly. A node is anything you can install Docker Engine on. Typically it's a physical or virtual server. All nodes are combined into a swarm, which you can manage from the control plane.

Pricing is more than reasonable. If you add a backup into the UCP, it will be a steal.

they are in a position of luxury, for sure. if a serious contender starts cutting into Docker Corp's pie, they'll have to ramp up the other departments.

How much runway does Docker Co have for the number of employees on staff?

years

I hope you didn't take offense to the question. I recognize Docker's contribution to the containerization landscape, but after doing tech for ~15 years, you see things come and go and you get tired of wasting your time on products or tooling that may or may not be around in 1-3 years.

Given the Docker engine has been around for a number of years and it's still picking up steam, containers aren't going away anytime soon. That said, Docker Inc. has plenty of cash in the bank.

I never said containers are going away. I implied its going to be hard to make money off of containerization.

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