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Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? I assume it helps make it seem developer friendly, data-mining, identifying projects/new ideas

by dpflan 7y ago

Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? I assume it helps make it seem developer friendly, data-mining, identifying projects/new ideas of value and validation, and is part of their becoming more of a cloud company strategy.

s_dev 7y ago
> Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? Between LinkedIn and GitHub they probably have the best data for identifying great devs/engineers as well as encouraging future devs to use their products. Soft power.
- dpflan 7y ago
  This is very interesting, as means of finding talent before its larger competitors do. The discussion about how Google has a “deep bench” to deal with shifting and departures seems to apply here conceptually.
marcosdumay 7y ago
> Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? Developers, developers, developers. They are deeply integrating GitHub into Azure and Tfs, and integrating that with Visual Studio, creating a top-notch devops platform for you to develop for Windows or Azure. And now with their move into Linux, they are creating an image just like the old Borland.
eternalny1 7y ago
It's being tightly integrated with Azure and the new Azure DevOps. From my experience working with that, it's very nice. But there is always the anti-Microsoft bias around, so GitLab may do well for that reason alone.
PretzelFisch 7y ago
GitHub should help azure compete with amazon's aws offerings as well as Google's. GitHub is also where MS hosts many of their open source projects so brining that "in house" was probably a large part of the acquisition strategy. How GitLab can have this kind of high evaluation is beyond me when they sale only one part of what Atlassian( bitbucket) offers.
- manigandham 7y ago
  GitLab is far more than just source control like Github or Bitbucket. Servicing the entire software pipeline from planning to delivery has been their entire mission.
notyourday 7y ago
> Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? MSFT integrated sales channel. LinkedIn data + Github data is pretty much everyone who buys any "IT"/"software" services.
donmcronald 7y ago
Microsoft has quite a few things they want to promote via GitHub. * Azure * Azure * Azure * Azure * Azure

by dpflan 7y ago

s_dev 7y ago

> Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? Between LinkedIn and GitHub they probably have the best data for identifying great devs/engineers as well as encouraging future devs to use their products. Soft power.

dpflan 7y ago
This is very interesting, as means of finding talent before its larger competitors do. The discussion about how Google has a “deep bench” to deal with shifting and departures seems to apply here conceptually.

marcosdumay 7y ago

> Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? Developers, developers, developers. They are deeply integrating GitHub into Azure and Tfs, and integrating that with Visual Studio, creating a top-notch devops platform for you to develop for Windows or Azure. And now with their move into Linux, they are creating an image just like the old Borland.

eternalny1 7y ago

It's being tightly integrated with Azure and the new Azure DevOps. From my experience working with that, it's very nice. But there is always the anti-Microsoft bias around, so GitLab may do well for that reason alone.

PretzelFisch 7y ago

GitHub should help azure compete with amazon's aws offerings as well as Google's. GitHub is also where MS hosts many of their open source projects so brining that "in house" was probably a large part of the acquisition strategy. How GitLab can have this kind of high evaluation is beyond me when they sale only one part of what Atlassian( bitbucket) offers.

manigandham 7y ago
GitLab is far more than just source control like Github or Bitbucket. Servicing the entire software pipeline from planning to delivery has been their entire mission.

notyourday 7y ago

> Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? MSFT integrated sales channel. LinkedIn data + Github data is pretty much everyone who buys any "IT"/"software" services.

donmcronald 7y ago

Microsoft has quite a few things they want to promote via GitHub. * Azure * Azure * Azure * Azure * Azure