Ben Golub, the former CEO of Gluster, the storage venture gone to Red Hat for $136 million, is now CEO of another promising venture-backed open source start-up, two-year-old dotCloud.
DotCloud first came to market toting a multi-language Platform-as-a-Service that proved revenue-producing but is now consumed with a project called Docker that has claimed much of its technology.
Docker is an open source engine that quickly wraps up any application and all its peculiar dependencies in a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that can run virtually anywhere on anybody’s infrastructure.
It’s a take on the old Java promise of write once, run anywhere.