Google, VMware, and Red Hat Just Joined Together to Kneecap Red-hot Startup Docker
It is so predictable, you can set your watch by it.
First, a company launches a product so popular that the exchange of industry (like the iPhone). So there is a reaction, results in a product that competitor billed as more open than the original product (like Android) white. If the proceeds from that competitor is the ICT market, the two are often a kind of competitive balance.
Ultimately, users have more options-which is a good thing.
This is what is happening today in the world of software containers, Which sounds almost as fun as watching paint dry, grows fast and objectives has the potential to be a great market. These are companies that contribute to the realization of huge cost savings through more efficient management of their IT infrastructure. Even Microsoft has joined the fun with own container technology disputes.
Docker, the company that essentially invented the market recently raised $ 95 million a monster round of financing and is maneuvering to monopolize the market by selling not only the base container technology, the goal aussi everything else you need to do work on large scales.
In our metaphor, Docker is the iPhone.
The competition comes in the form of CoreOS, used to be friends with Docker before the two companies had a public falling out last year. CoreOS thought Docker exercised too much control over the container market, and launched "appc," a competing standard that promises CoreOS will be driven less by any enterprise and by the community of developers who use it.
In our metaphor, is appc Android.
The last time we heard CoreOS it had raised its own round of financing with participation from Google Ventures.At CoreOS Fest event today in San Francisco, the company announced that Google, VMware, Red Hat, and Apcera all signed to support appc in their own software. This means that developers can use either or Docker appc to their own preference in one of these clouds.
CEO and cofounder Alexis Dust Post says his company sells the idea of "gift" or "the Google infrastructure for everyone." Google has long been using containers to maximize their own efficiency behind the scenes, and said Polvi that the time has come for everyone to do the same. Docker APPC supports containers, and their own, which means that developers do not have to choose. They can not use. means no reason for sellers to not to adopt the standard. Dockers momentum will be difficult to stop. But a handful of major technology companies to come together to offer a viable alternative should give pause warm start.
