To put it very simply...

Any one of these companies (IBM, Microsoft, Unisys, Oracle, VMWare, and the Apache Foundation) COULD have strangled AWS in the cradle if they'd invented Docker in the 00's.

As it was, Docker came into being because people got fed up of waiting for every goddamn company to pull their heads out of their asses and offer os level virtualization of containerized application stacks.

At the time I was an IBM admin, so I know they had the pieces in their hands to do it if they'd wanted to, but they were too narrowly focused on how to profit from the individual products to zoom out and figure out how to sell them all as an integrated, easy to use platform.

Now they have to play catch up. And as products like Red Hat's OpenShift show (poorly), they're going to have a lot of work to do to make it user friendly. But they will catch up eventually.

To put it very simply...

Any one of these companies (IBM, Microsoft, Unisys, Oracle, VMWare, and the Apache Foundation) COULD have strangled AWS in the cradle if they'd invented Docker in the 00's.

As it was, Docker came into being because people got fed up of waiting for every goddamn company to pull their heads out of their asses and offer os level virtualization of containerized application stacks.

At the time I was an IBM admin, so I know they had the pieces in their hands to do it if they'd wanted to, but they were too narrowly focused on how to profit from the individual products to zoom out and figure out how to sell them all as an integrated, easy to use platform.