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2020: It has been an amazing ride but all journeys come to an end. Joining the Google family will allow us to offer our customers much better experience while r
by Truth2019 7y ago
2020: It has been an amazing ride but all journeys come to an end. Joining the Google family will allow us to offer our customers much better experience while retaining our independence. We are developers at heart and this is why we want to give developers the source control tools they deserve!
- danieldk 7y agoUnder Principles: Independence: since we took financing we need to have a liquidity event; to maintain independence we want to become a public company rather than be acquired. At any rate, even if it happens, GitLab CE is open source, which can't be said for some of their competition.
- bdcravens 7y agoThe question is, is that their call to make? Does Goldman Sachs share the same opinion?
- marcinzm 7y agoFrom what I can tell 5 out of 7 board seats are owned by VCs and it's very unlikely the founders retain majority shares given their 5 rounds of funding. So I doubt it's their call to make in any way.
- bdcravens 7y agoI can promise you they are already in talks with at least one large company. You know those phones started ringing when Microsoft bought Github. I'm not ready to believe that Goldman Sachs is now a principles over profit kind of company.
- sonnyblarney 7y agoIf one takes GitLab's communication entirely at face value, one might consider there is some kind of 'principled' thing going on here, but I suggest that 'it's just a business' and that GitLab isn't some shiny example of much, other than a well run entity. All of the 'everyone can do this' language in their communications, is just that, communications, it has a cognitive resonance with words such as 'equality' which appeal to some (well, all of us in a way) - but it's marketing. The are what they are because it works for those involved, and also makes them money. Many boring business without fancy communications provide immense surpluses to the world.
- sonnyblarney 7y ago"to maintain independence we want to become a public company rather than be acquired" I don't doubt this is their honest preference, but these are words, part of a communications strategy. Since it's fairly clearly a business, they have 'a price', surely, moreover, the outside impetus may force their hand.
- sunaurus 7y ago2022: Google is shutting down GitLab.
- bdcravens 7y agoWhich means Gitlab would likely cease to exist as a standalone product but rather be integrated into GCP or the like (similar to Gemnasium and Gitorious after Gitlab acquired them)
- janee 7y agoTbh Google would make a good fit considering the existing auto devops CI/CD integration with GCP. I guess MS will roll out something similar on Github + Azure sometime in the future.
- simplyinfinity 7y agoCheckout azure pipelines + visual studio team services :)
- techntoke 7y agoGitLab has self-hosted and open source, and offers a lot more for free.