Yea to be clear. This article is kind of written horribly and the title is click-bait. Everyone who follows Docker should know that Dotcloud used to be the name of Docker.
However, as the article explained horribly, many like my self didn't know they sold their PaaS service where they originally developed Docker to another company.
The original dotCloud (aka. Docker) is still fine. Is not going bankrupt or shutting down. The owners of the service they originally built is going down.
I take your point, though in fairness many who follow Docker will have noted the sale at the time as it was all over HN etc. Followed not all that long after by the acquisition of Tutum interestingly, getting them right back into the PaaS space again.
Ah, and the plot thickens. Yea, I just wished the article had made it clear in first few sentences which company we were talking about and what was going on.
Somewhat sad to hear it. When I was working on my startup, we got our start on Dotcloud. We ended up migrating mid-stream to Heroku, which was more expensive but ultimately better designed and faster at progressing.
But it's been gratifying to see that the original team found a very potent niche in containerization. It's kind of funny that Docker is now probably the hotter of the two companies.
dotCloud did rename itself to Docker, but it sold off its original "dotCloud"-branded PAAS to cloudControl. cloudControl is shutting down the dotCloud service, but former dotCloud company (i.e. Docker) is still alive and well.
> ... dotCloud the startup pivoted to focus on Docker and changed its name to Docker as well. Then, in August 2014, Docker sold dotCloud to cloudControl.
It's not about the developers. It's about signing up large customers, as in enterprises. If you don't have them, it doesn't matter how much of anything else you have, you're going to have a hard time surviving in PaaS.
I'm sure I'm not the only person that had to check the year and make sure that there was a February 29th this year, and that this wasn't some sort of early April Fools joke.
However, as the article explained horribly, many like my self didn't know they sold their PaaS service where they originally developed Docker to another company.
The original dotCloud (aka. Docker) is still fine. Is not going bankrupt or shutting down. The owners of the service they originally built is going down.