No :) If we released a closed-source version we would get forked in a instant. It would be an extremely stupid thing for us to do.
We've stated repeatedly that Docker inc. will make money by 1) offering support and professional services to enterprise customers, primarily through channel partners like Red Hat and others; and 2) offering hosted managed services for things like image hosting, orchestration, container tracking etc. Since we have been operating a PaaS at large scale for several years now, we know how to sell hosted services and it makes sense for us to focus on that.
No :) If we released a closed-source version we would get forked in a instant. It would be an extremely stupid thing for us to do.
We've stated repeatedly that Docker inc. will make money by 1) offering support and professional services to enterprise customers, primarily through channel partners like Red Hat and others; and 2) offering hosted managed services for things like image hosting, orchestration, container tracking etc. Since we have been operating a PaaS at large scale for several years now, we know how to sell hosted services and it makes sense for us to focus on that.
Ben (our CEO) gives more details in this blog post: http://blog.docker.io/2014/01/docker-closes-15-m-series-b-fu...