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Agreed. CodePlex and to a lesser extent Google Code both felt less like competing products and more like MS and Google just wanted to have a code hosting prese
by jlarocco 10y ago
Agreed. CodePlex and to a lesser extent Google Code both felt less like competing products and more like MS and Google just wanted to have a code hosting presence to advertise that they "do" open source.
Neither offered much that couldn't be provided with barebones cheap hosting and a Gitlab install, and my impression as an outsider was thatneither really improved over time.
TBH, GitHub and BitBucket may not offer too much over GitLab any more either, but they are at least improving their products all the time and there's a sort of trendy network effect in using them that didn't exist for CodePlex or Google Code.
- andybak 10y agoI'd point out Google Code predated Github and for a while was the cool kid in town. They were late in supporting Git and slow to improve the feature set. Another lead Google threw away.
- manigandham 10y agoGithub is barely at $200M in revenue and requires a lot of moving pieces to make that happen - something that just doesnt make sense for the scale of Google. It's not really a great business opportunity. However, Google Cloud Platform does have private repositories that can also be used in their CI/CD solution. https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/ https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/
- andybak 10y agoFair point. Sometimes Google abandons something not because of institutional dysfuntionality - but simply because they are aiming much much bigger. Shame if you happen to live in the path of the juggernaut however...
- sqeaky 10y agoThat is a small revenue considering the impact they have on the world. I wonder how they might better monetize without becoming obnoxious?