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more consolidation. at least its competition for github. I could see IBM/Redhat acquiring Gitlab at this rate.
by GrayTextIsTruth 7y ago
more consolidation. at least its competition for github. I could see IBM/Redhat acquiring Gitlab at this rate.
- PudgePacket 7y agoMy bet is on google. There's a _lot_ of kubernetes/gcloud integration going on with gitlab.
- pnako 7y agoOracle could be a good candidate too. They have a cloud service and from what I can see their development environment is a mix of basic in-house tools, old-school stuff like Hudson and various open-source projects.
- DocTomoe 7y agoThat would be a major reason to abandon the Gitlab ship. Google is notorious for killing off projects. Also, Google had a Gitlab/Github-style page until a few years ago, called Google Code. Obviously, they weren't interested on that venue anymore.
- mschuster91 7y ago> Obviously, they weren't interested on that venue anymore. Because Github and Gitlab was eating up the userbase left and right. The utter lack of any progress/development on Google Code itself was the nail in the coffin driving people away.
- gbersac 7y agoGoogle only kills unsuccessful projects. Gitlab is an obvious successful project.
- dgellow 7y agoGoogle Reader was clearly successful.
- shawabawa3 7y agoWas it? I've never met or heard of anyone using it except on Hacker News I also doubt it made any revenue
- manigandham 7y agoIt absolutely wasn't. It was completely insignificant in all respects to a company of that size. It also has had better alternatives within months of its demise to the point that it's rather surprising people are still missing it.
- aquaticsunset 7y agoCommercially unsuccessful projects* There’s a big difference to Google execs between technological and commercial success. It must be very, very interesting to be a fly on the wall of their high level product management meetings.
- bsder 7y ago> That would be a major reason to abandon the Gitlab ship. Why? Gitlab is actually open source. Although we actually pay money to Gitlab for support since it's so cheap. We run our own instances and would be fine even if a FAANG bought it and killed it. The ability to self-host is actually one of the differences between Gitlab and Github.
- Chico75 7y agoWell we do as well but it's tied to a license key that enables specific extra freatures, so if they kill and can't renew it, we would be screwed unless they released a special change or key to disable it (barring someone else figuring out how to remove the key validation, likely against ToS)
- Crinus 7y agoMicrosoft also had CodePlex yet they acquired GitHub.
- z3t4 7y agoWhy do every company have to be acquired by a bigger one ?
- mkl 7y agoBasically so the founders and investors can cash out. Investors put money in to get a bigger return, and founders may have shares worth a lot on paper, but that's not money until someone else buys them.
- Lammy 7y agoIn this (hypothetical) case I’d assume a Gitlab acquisition would be more of a hedge against Microsoft for Google than anything else.
- kennydude 7y agoHopefully they stay independent. They're better that way
- emilycook 7y agoGitLab employee, our plan is to go public by next year: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/being-a-public-company/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/being-a-public-company/