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Investors won’t subsidize them forever, so it’s probably not the best place to work. They are counting on an acquisition. The question is who. Microsoft has Gi
by gaius 8y ago
Investors won’t subsidize them forever, so it’s probably not the best place to work.
They are counting on an acquisition. The question is who. Microsoft has Github so, Atlassian (and merge with Bitbucket), IBM or Oracle are the most likely.
- shimms 8y agoGoogle is more likely and already a significant investor.
- richardwhiuk 8y agoI doubt Google would buy GitLab. It's an exceptionally bad fit. GitLab's customers are primarily people who want to on-site host, and part of the SaaS marker (though I'd guess that's mostly gone to GitHub). Google don't do Enterprise offerings well - they don't ship software. GitLab is the pinacle of doing everything moderately well - they explicitly prioritise "Breadth over Depth" - https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/ https://about.gitlab.com/company/strategy/ - aka doing every 20%, and leaving the bugs and the missing features to the community. Google are on the overhand fond of polishing something endlessly so they don't have support requests for it. GitLab's source code is all opensource - Google's source code almost none of it is open source. (BigTable, Bors, GFS, advertising stuff etc etc).
- pc86 8y agoI can't even imagine the dumpster fire this would turn into post-IBM or Oracle acquisition.