I 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 (

I 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).