They want for the deal because, in spite of doing well on the community side, they did not go as well on the business side. Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Kubernetes are very crowded and difficult markets. Being popular with startups is a big advantage in many ways, but it doesn't pay the bills.
This is important. A startup has to get beyond upstart.
Despite being a ‘buyer’ it was virtually impossible to get traditional enterprise risk management processes to bet the farm on an upstart OS + platform.
Now a vendor that enterprise starts to trust can offer this and everyone wins. It’s just what the doctor ordered for the K8s roadmap at RedHat.
Why did CoreOS go for this deal though? also, how could the investors agree?