This seems like huge news and seems to be somewhat underappreciated/under discussed on HN... What's the over-under on number of months/years that Nomad will be able to compete?

I can't tell if consolidation in this space is a good thing (we finally get a single, extensible platform with widespread support, consistent APIs/models from vendors), or a bad thing (see: any other market lacking competition), but outside of Nomad and Swarm are there any other large container orchestrators that people put stock in these days?

Are we seeing the evolution of the VC model (subsidize-then-dominate) and/or it's application to F/OSS software? If I make a container orchestration platform (I've been sketching one out lately), do I have any hope in ever competing with Kubernetes for attention from developers, no matter how good what I make is (assuming ideological agility could offer benefits greater than millions of dollars is already a stretch).