Klaus
 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:42:27 +0200 
Wo wird das wohl hin führen?

#^Anwendungs-Container: Microsoft will Docker für Windows entwickeln
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Microsoft hat die Wichtigkeit von Docker erkannt und wird die Container-Verpackungstechnik in Zusammenarbeit mit deren Entwicklern künftig auf seinen Plattformen unterstützen.
Klaus
 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:54:01 +0200 
Here's the official announcement in english...
#^Docker and Microsoft Partner to Drive Adoption of Distributed Applications to Every Enterprise Operating System and Cloud | Docker Blog
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Today, we announced an exciting set of joint initiatives with Microsoft, including: I’d like to provide some context for this announcement, and why we are so excited. When Docker was launched as an open source project 18 months ago, we had a simple goal: “To build the ‘button’ that enables any application to be built and deployed on any ser...

Why Micro$oft does not replace it's kernel with the Linux kernel? o_O
A Microsoft led initiative to add container capabilities (e.g. the equivalent of namespaces and cgroups) to Windows

I thought Micro$oft already had an application isolation, jail, whatever system.
Haakon Meland Eriksen
 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:15:34 +0200 
The tech is not important for MS, to be able to honestly say "Yes, we are partners" to customers looking at a particular new cool tech and then sell their own variety is.