Dotcloud
dotCloud was a cloud computing company that provided a platform as a service (PaaS) for deploying, scaling, and managing web applications. Founded in 2010 in Paris by Solomon Hykes and colleagues, the service offered developers a streamlined way to deploy apps with configuration, runtimes, databases, and add-ons, across multiple cloud providers.
In 2013, dotCloud released Docker as an open‑source container technology designed to package and run applications
Following the rise of Docker, the company rebranded as Docker, Inc. in 2013 and shifted its focus
Legacy and impact: dotCloud is remembered as the origin of Docker, with its initial PaaS work contributing
See also: Docker, Docker Engine, containerization, platform as a service.