Kubernetes is here to stay. Google could vanish tomorrow and most of the longterm impact on Kubernetes would be programmers adjusting to Bing's interface when are searching for particular information. Red Hat would pick up the ball and carry it themselves, if they had to, because OpenShift is as existential to them as GCP may become to Google.<p>The article glosses quickly past the fact that Collison is talking his own book here, because Apcera has struggled to build a large-scale business on closed source.<p>Meanwhile the project he helped to launch, Cloud Foundry, is the basis of ... uh ... shall we say I am aware of <i>many dollars</i> going to my employers and our major competitors. We also work very closely with Google on stuff that <i>isn't</i> Kubernetes and stuff that <i>is based on</i> Kubernetes. They like both equally. Why? It brings in customers.<p>Opensource has won the CaaS space. That phase is over. No F500 is prepared to buy something with no escape hatch from vendor lockin. Neither is any F5,000,000.<p>All that's left is to answer: which opensource?<p>Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we're the leading contributor to Cloud Foundry. Don't base any decisions on anything I write, I'm just a line engineer with an overactive keyboard.