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Red Hat buys CoreOS, 451 says the container market is worth $1.5bn now and will more than double by 2021, Heptio and Cisco put out Kubernetes distros. Also, Bezos, Buffet, and Dimon are gonna fix healthcare.

75% of IT decision-makers believe “that container management and orchestration software, such as Kubernetes, is sufficient to replace private cloud software, such as OpenStack or VMware,” @ripcitylyman & @alsadowski (@451Research).

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• Price of $250m - “an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions.”
• $50m in funding, since 2015, but CoreOS was started in 2013.
• Matt Rosoff: “CoreOS has 130 employee…Docker, meanwhile, has raised more than $240 million.”
• 451 revenue estimates, July 2017, Jay Lyman: “CoreOS has about 120 employees [up from 75 reported in Sep 2016, “about 30 employees” in April 2015], and estimated annual revenue in the $15-20m range.” Sep 2016 customers: “CoreOS reports more than 1,000 paying customers across its products, with a solid group of CoreOS lightweight Linux clients and a growing number of Quay Enterprise and Tectonic customers.”
• Plus, Ibid.: “ The company says most rev