Cloud Computing: How An Awful, Misspelled Presentation Launched The Most Important Startup You’ve Never Heard Of
November 16, 2014
Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Julie Bort.
A tiny startup called Docker, which launched a mere 19 months ago and gives its software away for free, has become a huge industry phenom. The biggest names in tech have been calling it up and asking it to be their partner.
In the past few months Dell, HP, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware and others have all asked to join forces with this 31-employee company. On Thursday, Amazon got cheers at its customers when it announced it would be supporting Docker, too…
This has been a shockingly crazy ride for the startup’s founder, 31-year-old Solomon Hykes. He started working on Docker in 2008 in his mother’s Paris basement, as a tiny side thing that he thought only a handful of other people would ever care about…
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