<story><title>Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/mirantis-acquires-docker-enterprise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AaronFriel</author><text>Docker is the single best thing to happen to software deployment in 20 years, not just because of what it did for eliminating &amp;quot;works on my machine&amp;quot; build problems, but because of what it enabled. A &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; ecosystem has sprung up around containerization, with immense value created for other businesses. Their &amp;quot;Docker for Windows&amp;#x2F;Mac&amp;quot; apps are one of the first things I install on any new dev machine.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s unfortunate they didn&amp;#x27;t figure out a way to make money off the best thing to happen to building and deploying software in 20 years.&lt;p&gt;A lot of other people did, from the startups now selling value-adds to Kubernetes like Kong and Tigera and TwistLock (since acquired) and others, to the public clouds which all offer Docker-based build services, image registries, and PaaS deployment tooling, to Kubernetes itself which for most users today still relies on Docker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmcnl</author><text>Happy to read this here, somehow any topic related to Docker on here ends up with someone saying Docker brings nothing new to the table except for a propietary API and you could just as well use LCX or whatever. I can personally see from inside a big corporation how Docker (or containerization) has a huge impact in how &amp;quot;easy&amp;quot; it becomes for developers to build and run their own code.&lt;p&gt;Without Docker everything new becomes a project on its own where you need to call in &amp;quot;ops&amp;quot; for the smallest of things. Not anymore. Ofcourse this has some other downsides, but in general it&amp;#x27;s a massive step forward.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/mirantis-acquires-docker-enterprise/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AaronFriel</author><text>Docker is the single best thing to happen to software deployment in 20 years, not just because of what it did for eliminating &amp;quot;works on my machine&amp;quot; build problems, but because of what it enabled. A &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; ecosystem has sprung up around containerization, with immense value created for other businesses. Their &amp;quot;Docker for Windows&amp;#x2F;Mac&amp;quot; apps are one of the first things I install on any new dev machine.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s unfortunate they didn&amp;#x27;t figure out a way to make money off the best thing to happen to building and deploying software in 20 years.&lt;p&gt;A lot of other people did, from the startups now selling value-adds to Kubernetes like Kong and Tigera and TwistLock (since acquired) and others, to the public clouds which all offer Docker-based build services, image registries, and PaaS deployment tooling, to Kubernetes itself which for most users today still relies on Docker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VonGuard</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a lot like Sun Microsystems and Java. That was a big improvement in the lives of developers, but the company behind it never really figured out how to make money on it.</text></comment>