> Technically speaking, they were quite far ahead of the curve. While VMs were all the rage, they were shipping container-based products
> The technical abilities of the Joyent folks were well beyond just about anybody else for a long time.
None of that was ever true. Whether they had container-based or VM-based tech was a tiny unimportant detail for a cloud company. Although over engineering in this area certainly made it impossible for them to compete with more traditional hosting companies. And to be able to compete with Amazon they needed something they didn't have - distributed systems background, not Sun background, which was anything but.
> The technical abilities of the Joyent folks were well beyond just about anybody else for a long time.
None of that was ever true. Whether they had container-based or VM-based tech was a tiny unimportant detail for a cloud company. Although over engineering in this area certainly made it impossible for them to compete with more traditional hosting companies. And to be able to compete with Amazon they needed something they didn't have - distributed systems background, not Sun background, which was anything but.