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> Good on the VCs who have deep connections to Google, Amazon, SalesForce, SAP, Oracle, Apple, etc. to make some serious money by selling GitLab to them at some
by ipsum2 8y ago
> Good on the VCs who have deep connections to Google, Amazon, SalesForce, SAP, Oracle, Apple, etc. to make some serious money by selling GitLab to them at some point.
All of these companies have their own internal version control, and its highly doubtful that any of them would switch over to a third-party service.
- matthewmacleod 8y agoAll of these companies have their own internal version control, and its highly doubtful that any of them would switch over to a third-party service. I get the impress "selling GitLab" to them literally means selling the company to them.
- tw04 8y agoExactly how much do you think they're spending on internal version control that they could ever justify spending over a billion dollars on gitlab???
- matthewmacleod 8y agoMicrosoft bought GitHub and it wasn’t for internal use.
- mbesto 8y agoThere's a few people confusing the purchase of software and the purchase of a software company. Sorry for not being more clear. I'm specifically talking about the fact that all of those companies have massive amounts of cash that they could buy the company and it would create an ROI from the profit it generates.
- devNC 8y agoMicrosoft also had its own internal version control...