diff --git a/lib/do_profile/profilecommon.js b/lib/do_profile/profilecommon.js
index aeba41d..ea44215 100644
--- a/lib/do_profile/profilecommon.js
+++ b/lib/do_profile/profilecommon.js
@@ -459,10 +459,32 @@ function profileDockerSetup(opts, cb) {
             if (!arg.dockerVersion) {
                 setup.env.DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT = '300';
                 setup.env.COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT = '300';
-            } else if (semver.gte(arg.dockerVersion, '1.9.0')) {
-                setup.env.COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT = '300';
             } else {
-                setup.env.DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT = '300';
+
+                /*
+                 * We now need to parse version numbers differently since the
+                 * introduction of Docker CE and EE. semver won't like them.
+                 */
+                var versionNumberExp = /(?:\d+\.){2}\d+/;
+                var versionNumber = versionNumberExp.exec(arg.dockerVersion)[0];
+
+                /*
+                 * semver also doesn't seem to like versions like `17.03.0'.
+                 * The prefixing 0 in the minor number of the exemple seems
+                 * to hurt it. Let's parse them back to numbers with no
+                 * prefixing `0's.
+                 */
+
+                versionNumber = versionNumber
+                  .split('.')
+                  .map(function (strnum) { return parseInt(strnum, 10); })
+                  .join('.');
+
+                if (semver.gte(versionNumber, '1.9.0')) {
+                    setup.env.COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT = '300';
+                } else {
+                    setup.env.DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT = '300';
+                }
             }
 
             fs.writeFile(setupJson,