More so asking about business/product value, given Docker's investment levels (congrats on this) and that other companies are seemingly doing container management better and investing more labor here. This seems to leave Docker with (A) DockerHub or (B) a foundation for profit options. Both might be totally valid, but it's unclear.
Sorry for crossing streams.
That standardization makes it easier for the orchestration companies and clouds is obvious. I'm just legitametly curious what this means for Docker, Inc and the business model, since it seems to be seeding the lower end, and they haven't invested in the upper end as much -- Docker itself not being a tremendously large amount of plumbing, and all OSS, it's easy to replicate. So what they have is basically support and the leadership of that community.
As right now, this reads like I'll be able to use everything on Mesos/CoreOS/ECS and just swap out a backend, it's unclear why I would want to pick things from Docker Inc. It's like I get pluggable tooling where all the frontends can speak to backends and the image format is the same -- so it seems differentiation would have to happen at the top in the tooling, which is weird seeing efforts have gone into the bottom end and other companies have done a lot on the top.
Perhaps some messaging to address. Perhaps there's enough funding that this isn't a concern even for the next five years. I don't know, but I'm curious. It's useful to know this to tell where container-land is going, and it's an uncertain time in which management orchestration software to pick for running Docker clouds. (We can probably guess ECS is going to be around, roadmaps of others subject to speculation)
Mostly because I find the evolution of tools in this space interesting.
If you're interested in Docker's opinion on this topic, I recommend that you watch today's keynote. That's where we introduced runC and where we explain why.
