Gitlab is a single product company with no sales force behind it. It already sold to all the customers that it could easily sell to. In order to sell to the res

Gitlab is a single product company with no sales force behind it. It already sold to all the customers that it could easily sell to. In order to sell to the rest they would need to have staffed regional offices to do really really really long term sales cycles. It is an unsolvable problem in a current state. Microsoft is a hundred if not thousand product company with gigantic sales force and sales channels that are beyond the level of imagination of companies who say "remote only" is their differentiator. Github Enterprise exists. I know it because we used it. Github will be sold as a part of the rest of the Microsoft product portfolio, which is how they would end up in those coveted enterprises.