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As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation

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It’s really amazing docker isn’t more valuable, it has completely revolutionized software development. They just failed to pull in the enterprise cash in a meaningful way.

Exhibit A is showing the difference beween producing value and profit

I think it's an issue of monetization. The things that underpin Docker are all open source kernel features of Linux that were being worked on separately anyways.

Docker's value here is in wrapping that up into a nice useable package and offering a centralized repository. How much value does that actually add and more importantly, how do they monetize that?

A lot of this kind of tech work winds up this way.

I wouldn't even say that the problem is that it is only leveraging cgroups.

They grew too fast before they know how to commercialize it, if they had a payment model from the beginning this wouldn't have happened imo

Absolutely, but ElasticSearch is a $9b company, and there are many examples of companies that are built off just wrapping open source functionality. In fact thats a preferred business model in many ways.

Docker just seemed unable to produce products that enterprises would open their pocket books for. Their new pricing model around dockerhub/desktop may work

Containers really aren't rocket science.

Moreover, it has been amazing to watch how long it has taken the Docker community to move to distroless and more lightweight images.

> How much value does that actually add and more importantly, how do they monetize that?

In my opinion a hell of a lot.

I was using LXCs before Docker and the experience wasn't too bad as long as you were running native Linux. That's not going to be possible for a lot of folks which means it's back to rolling your own manual VM, then figuring out how to do remote code editing not just to a VM but an LXC within a VM and then figuring out distribution of that along with a lot of other problems that Docker solves.

With Docker, it really is just install it and run 1-2 commands and a lot of major code editors know how to work with it too.

This is a fun discussion on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9LTJdT0sZ8

“Gains momentum”?

This new valuation is a down round right?

Everyone knows there is little value in a container runtime. The value is in orchestration (k8s). There are so many other runtimes these days.

No, very much an up round.

I thought Docker was losing momentum? I guess good for them for raising an extra money.

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