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Every piece of news coming out about Docker convinces me it's "the future". This is in the same way Java was the future in 1995, which may not seem like a glowing comparison, but considering how that worked out in terms of useful impact (if not great for the parent company) it's a compliment.

Very good to see them take this stuff seriously early on, and even though sticking to some of those principles sounds difficult they're making all the right noises.

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Ya, it is a very impressive project. :)

I just hope they can sustain it long term.

Really? Docker just seems like the age old jail idea + marketing money and tools. What's so futuristic about it? Literally nothing it does is novel.

I guess the novel part is that it's actually being used.

Can I have some of this marketing money you're referring to?

edit: But more seriously, not to feed the troll or anything, but, the 'Sun has been doing this with zones for years! it proved all of this shit long ago!' is a little tired.

If you'd like to go deep on why people are interested and why this is catching on, let's have a chat. nick@docker.com.

Hey Nick, you can have all of it :)

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Lame, eh?

Hey duaneb, I'm running marketing for Docker since the begining of the project. I have a budget close to 0 (apart for pizzas and beer for Docker meetups in the Bay area :)

That being said in re difference between Docker and LXC/Jails/Zones

* Docker is a whole platform, that makes containers easy to use and portable.

* We’ve added security, versioning etc...

* Our platform has an index of images, where they can be shared and downloaded.

* In addition to the index we offer image management functionality: creation, changes, storing, sharing, updating, etc of images...that at runtime, run inside containers

Hope this helps

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