<story><title>Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/steve-singh-stepping-down-as-docker-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benjaminwootton</author><text>Has there ever been a bigger missed opportunity in business than Docker managed to preside over?  They could have created a huge business, but the product and go to market strategy has been awful.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, selling a PaaS was fundamentally the wrong call when they could have licensed an enterprise version of the engine and taken a commission on every server in existence.  This is more a Microsoft or RHEL type business rather than a second rate Pivotal or OpenShift, which in themselves are being mullered by EKS&amp;#x2F;AKS in enterprise.&lt;p&gt;The whole pitch towards legacy apps was also short termist distraction when investment dollars are all going to cloud native solutions.  Legacy apps are a big business case but getting companies to invest in their legacy estate is still a tough ask.  This angle should have been secondary to competing where they are naturally strong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonebrunozzi</author><text>I agree it was a missed opportunity, but:&lt;p&gt;1) Is there another company that benefited from that missed opportunity? No. K8S is free and it &amp;quot;makes money&amp;quot; in the sense that it&amp;#x27;s a great on-ramp for GCP, and therefore GCP is happy to subsidize it.&lt;p&gt;2) It&amp;#x27;s never too easy to be the &amp;quot;first&amp;quot; company to break into a new technology or opportunity. Look at Altavista, and how it lost to Google in just a few years, despite when Google started Altavista was already a huge company.&lt;p&gt;3) I am not sure that your proposed solution would have worked, at least in terms of making Docker successful. It is the obvious alternative, but hard to be certain that its outcome would have been a better one for Docker (the company).</text></comment>
<story><title>Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/steve-singh-stepping-down-as-docker-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benjaminwootton</author><text>Has there ever been a bigger missed opportunity in business than Docker managed to preside over?  They could have created a huge business, but the product and go to market strategy has been awful.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, selling a PaaS was fundamentally the wrong call when they could have licensed an enterprise version of the engine and taken a commission on every server in existence.  This is more a Microsoft or RHEL type business rather than a second rate Pivotal or OpenShift, which in themselves are being mullered by EKS&amp;#x2F;AKS in enterprise.&lt;p&gt;The whole pitch towards legacy apps was also short termist distraction when investment dollars are all going to cloud native solutions.  Legacy apps are a big business case but getting companies to invest in their legacy estate is still a tough ask.  This angle should have been secondary to competing where they are naturally strong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasallen</author><text>&amp;gt; Has there ever been a bigger missed opportunity in business than Docker managed to preside over?&lt;p&gt;Sun Microsystems</text></comment>