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Contrary to what you might think, those of us working on http://deis.io/ are excited by the Red Hat / Docker partnership and its implications on interoperability. Why? Because there will never be a one-size-fits-all PaaS.

Deis happens to be built around Chef with a workflow deeply inspired by Heroku. We believe strongly in that approach. Other PaaS's are working with more experimental technologies like CoreOS and etcd, others are going the Erlang route, others seem to be writing things from scratch in Go -- with all of it Docker compatible.

We think this is fantastic for the industry and for consumers (software teams) who will soon have lots of choices in open PaaS.

I absolutely agree with you, Docker is where the community seems to be converging for standardisation around linux containers. This is a great first step towards application portability from physical, virtual and PaaS. Now it will be interesting to see who/what will win when it comes to the cartridge/buildpack side of things.

Is it really where the "community" are converging?

Docker is well-known because DotCloud is pushing it, so there's money for marketing and hype.

Docker is an attempt to make DotCloud relevant.

Docker will live on as an open-source project, but if it doesn't gain traction fast enough for DotCloud to sell its services or raise extra funding, DotCloud will die.

I'd say this is a very negative comment because you are purely criticising without proposing where the community is actually going in your point of view. It might be more constructive to give your opinion on where containers should go if not Docker. I agree with you that this has been a pivot by dotCloud, but my hat goes off to them for it and I totally respect them as a startup for doing it!

Hopefully the community will continue moving forward by getting actual work done. These technologies are all cute, but nothing here, except the scale of marketing, is groundbreaking.

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