Great read:

What has Docker become?
Docker Inc’s journey from containerization pioneer to AI-focused platform has been anything but straightforward. Here’s what their strategic shifts tell us about the company’s search for identity.
Tuan-Anh Tran

I remember when Docker hit, almost seemingly overnight over a decade ago. Quite a refreshing way to organize one's development work, I would fire up images using all sorts of historical images at different times and do A/B testing on the project I was working on. This article hits the nail on the head and also, I think kinda circumvents it in a small part. I totally agree that Docker BECAUSE infrastructure ( one could say the defacto in some cases ) for small machines, however, I believe that the fact that they haven't been as successful as a company recently is because of what made it great in the first place, it's open soured core. I am very grateful that they went the way that they did back in 2014, but that being said I don't think you can skirt around the fact that it has been hard for Docker the company to sit up there in the Fortune 500 with the Oracles of the world is because the original core product was open source.