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On Aug 29, 2016, at 4:30 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 08/29/2016 06:13 PM, Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman wrote:
On Aug 29, 2016, at 4:02 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I am not particularly interested in Docker yet. It is still not a
mainstream technology.
This wasn’t an honest statement.
It was perfectly honest. I meant every word in it.
I should have stated, “I’m not particularly interested in Docker, so IObviously, our definitions of mainstream technology differ. From what I know,
haven’t spent time on it and am unaware that its a mainstream technology.”
the vast majority of cloud users, regardless of whether it's a private cloud
or Oracle cloud, AWS or Azure, are still using virtual machines. There aren't
many applications which are being distributed within Docker containers. Yes,
Docker is an exciting technology, but it remains to be seen what kind of a
commercial success will it generate. For now, I am perfectly happy with
vSphere 6 and the interface it provides me. When Docker develops such an
interface, be present on as many a PC as vSphere 6 and be as easy to learn, I
will agree that it is mainstream.
There are 100’s of thousands of shareholders that are happy you aren’t
making their investment decisions…. :)
As they probably should be. I am a computer geek, not an investment
consultant. They should try Dogbert Consulting for the latter. I am sure that
Dogbert would happily recommend investing in Docker based technology. I have
not heard of Oracle ditching OracleVM in favour of Docker? There aren't many
people who know how to easily create and manage containers and very few
commercial companies are deploying docker. I haven't had even a single
enquiry about protecting Docker containers. So yes, I don't believe that
Docker is mainstream yet. It may become. As for "100's of thousands of
shareholders", I would advise to be conservative and buy stock which
generates dividends, like Johnsons & Johnsons or P&G. Investments based on
wet dreams of techno geeks are probably not the best way to make money.
--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
Tel: (347) 321-1217
