I believe the ideas of containerization used by docker actually cam FROM Google. I remember listening to a speaker talk about how it was based on what Google uses for their production server and is docker is a way for them to share that technology without actually sharing their own proprietary stuff. So I doubt Google would be interested, and I think most other big companies should already have solutions to this problem (at least Microsoft and Amazon for sure).
Companies such as Microsoft and VMware who are leaders in the Windows application virtualization sector (via App-V and ThinApp) don't have complete solutions in this space.
Their solutions do a lot of tricks to simulate a container (e.g: user mode hooking, filtering drivers) while Docker uses kernel extensions.
VMware? Google? Amazon? RedHat? HP? IBM?
> If Docker was about to be acquired, why would there be any interest in raising a round? That dilutes everyone for no purpose. That's not smart.
It moves the valuation up and it increases the chances of being acquired.