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> By whom? And for what purpose?

VMware? Google? Amazon? RedHat? HP? IBM?

> If Docker was about to be acquired, why would there be any interest in raising a round? That dilutes everyone for no purpose. That's not smart.

It moves the valuation up and it increases the chances of being acquired.

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I believe the ideas of containerization used by docker actually cam FROM Google. I remember listening to a speaker talk about how it was based on what Google uses for their production server and is docker is a way for them to share that technology without actually sharing their own proprietary stuff. So I doubt Google would be interested, and I think most other big companies should already have solutions to this problem (at least Microsoft and Amazon for sure).

The idea of containerization is older than Google. You can take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system%E2%80%93level_...

Companies such as Microsoft and VMware who are leaders in the Windows application virtualization sector (via App-V and ThinApp) don't have complete solutions in this space.

Their solutions do a lot of tricks to simulate a container (e.g: user mode hooking, filtering drivers) while Docker uses kernel extensions.

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