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> I think Microsoft is handling this really well. What is baffling for me, is how worried some people seem to be. If you understand the Git hosting space, you
by sdesol 8y ago
> I think Microsoft is handling this really well.
What is baffling for me, is how worried some people seem to be. If you understand the Git hosting space, you would know Microsoft tried to compete with GitHub and failed miserably.
It is quite clear the value that GitHub provides is data and there is ABSOLUTELY no way Microsoft would want to disturb this. In fact, Bitbucket, GitLab and others should be concerned that Microsoft might treat GitHub as a loss leader and provide private repos for free.
- surye 8y agoIf you look at how the Xamarin acquisition went, this seems like a likely outcome.
- sdesol 8y agoI think Microsoft can really help GitHub in the Enterprise space. Imagine GitHub being able to offer GitHub Enterprise for free for the first 10 users. Imagine being able to discount GitHub Enterprise heavily.
- Merad 8y agoI'm really curious what will happen with GitHub Enterprise. Doesn't it compete in the same space as VSTS/TFS?
- sdesol 8y agoI guess the question is who will hurt the most. Will this hurt non microsoft products more or less. Microsoft might want to funnel people to their cloud and sacrificing tfs might make sense.
- marssaxman 8y agoI'm looking into Bitbucket right now, actually, and "unlimited private repos" is the first selling point listed on their pricing page (https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing). What I haven't been able to discover yet is what they charge for public repos, which are all I care about.
- Jedi72 8y agoI cant understand this policy from Atlassian - if they arent going to try and become the next default OSS Git repo service on the back of this aquisition they need to fire their strategy team.
- yappadappadoo 8y agoBitbucket doesn't charge for public repositories - we can definitely do a better job of making that clearer on our pricing page.
- marssaxman 8y agoGood to know, thanks!
- exmsft_throw32 8y agoThere's no way a company would pay $7.5B for an acquisition and then let it run "independently". That's just not how it works. See e.g. Skype.