I wonder how much traction this has gained in the Azure App Store.. my gut feeling as an enterprise software developer is telling me that businesses, small and large, all over the world will benefit from this. How many active users do you think they have now now that it's available on the Azure app store?
I know there's a lot of competition but usually the simplest, most complete, easy-to-implement solution takes the cake. If we can spin it up ourselves in Azure in a day and test it out, that's 100x better than having a professional services engagement and architectural design meetings etc.. With sphere we also get a container based architecture which is the way of the future.
Seems like Sphere is really pushing the healthcare industry from a marketing expense perspective, and everyone here seems to be focusing on that. When in reality it's the development communities and the little (and/or big) business that will make up the largest volume of it's customers, and there will be thousands of them, or maybe tens of thousands+++??
Everyone mentions Docker and it's nice $1bil valuation, which is cool. But check out Chef, ServiceStack, MongoDb, Nginx, Puppet, or SteelHive Carbon, or how much they're worth. Docker is great for the enterprise but I see an even larger need for application virtualization solutions like what sphere has managed to put together vs. docker or anything else alone.
There are risks, but - just saying - an $80mil market cap sounds low. I'm going to test out their available software myself this weekend with my Azure.
What do you think?
