Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

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At least in the initial stages, I think Docker's success will also help Sphere 3D succeed. Docker is based on the Linux kernel and so natively the containers are based on Linux. However, there are ways to have it run on Windows:

1: Use Boot2Docker to install a lightweight Linux VM and then have Docker run within this VM.

2: Use the Docker VM Extension for Azure to run containerized apps in the cloud (Azure). Remote management through Command Line Interface for Windows.

Docker cannot run legacy Windows apps or modern .NET apps without modification. Any Windows-based app that needs to be containerized must be modified to take advantage of the recently announced .NET Core Framework for Linux/OS X. This is why Sphere 3D is marketing Glassware as a solution that is capable of virtualizing any application, including legacy apps because Docker in its current form (or any other app virtualization technology that takes advantage of containers) cannot do this. Glassware goes beyond Windows app virtualization by having the microvisor emulate the capabilities of a different OS kernel. Be it, Linux, XNU (which OS X and iOS is based on), etc. Heck, you can theoretically run Docker within Glassware if you really wanted to to (container in a container).