Dotcloud Is Shutting Down on February 29

Yea to be clear. This article is kind of written horribly and the title is click-bait. Everyone who follows Docker should know that Dotcloud used to be the name of Docker.<p>However, as the article explained horribly, many like my self didn&#x27;t know they sold their PaaS service where they originally developed Docker to another company.<p>The original dotCloud (aka. Docker) is still fine. Is not going bankrupt or shutting down. The owners of the service they originally built is going down.

Somewhat sad to hear it. When I was working on my startup, we got our start on Dotcloud. We ended up migrating mid-stream to Heroku, which was more expensive but ultimately better designed and faster at progressing.<p>But it&#x27;s been gratifying to see that the original team found a very potent niche in containerization. It&#x27;s kind of funny that Docker is now probably the hotter of the two companies.

Sort of like when Pantera stopped being Glam Metal. RIP an era which got replaced by something much better!

I thought DotCloud renamed itself to Docker, and completely pivoted? I guess not

is PaaS dead? &gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10894624" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10894624</a>

I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not the only person that had to check the year and make sure that there <i>was</i> a February 29th this year, and that this wasn&#x27;t some sort of early April Fools joke.