[nickstinemates]

For what it's worth, we use this metaphor a lot, along with the same wording in pretty much every pitch we do, both public and private.

What I find interesting about Docker is that different people get excited about different aspects of it.

One of the major reasons I love working at the company - I get to watch them have the same feeling I did over 2 years ago: the feeling that Docker can help with something they find painful in their daily work.

[hosh]

Thanks for sharing. I remember the pictures of intermodal containers for explaining this.

Sadly, I also see writeups that focus too much on the virtualization aspect. The journalists are searching for something to compare it to, so Docker gets compared to other virtualization and resource isolation tools.

Growing pains, I suppose?

[nickstinemates]

The media often looks for conflict; the easiest target is Docker vs. VMWare. But as you correctly point out, we don't really see it that way.