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IME GitHub has not had increased downtime after Microsoft's acquisition.

anonsivalley652 7y ago
Well, some other people in the comments disagree. And it hasn't happened yet, but it's the way they don't manage / integrate acquisitions very well unless they're wowie complementary products like Visio. Danger dropped off a cliff and Softricity was absolutely amazing but shelved, so friends of mine basically repeated the theme for VMware View and were acquihired by VMware. Time will tell where GH goes.
- bbrree66 7y ago
  There are so many logical flaws here. People's comments are meaningless, you can look at historical GitHub up-time and see that it hasn't changed meaningfully. "And it hasn't happened yet" Ah yes, now you have to backtrack from: it happened! to... no wait I promise it will happen! Based on... what? The fact that some acquisitions don't go well? This is all pure speculation with no substantiation. I recommend learning about confirmation bias.
  - endorphone 7y ago
    To be fair, they didn't say that was the cause of the current outage. They made a general observation that Microsoft-acquired companies degrade, which seems like a fairly reasonable observation: The goal of being the best Git service/repo falls by the wayside as other corporate goals push in.
  - erikbye 7y ago
    I agree, but I just now took a look here: https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=7 https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=7 I went back from the time of Microsoft's acquisition, and that status seems heavily underreported. At least when I checked now, it was all green, green. That does not reflect my experience.
- stickfigure 7y ago
  Early Danger adopter here. The hiptop was great for its time but with the advent of the iPhone, it was obsolete. That was before the MS acquisition. Rubin (and presumably much of his team) had long prior left for Android. Danger was already in freefall by the time of the acquisition. You can't blame Microsoft for that.
- bennyelv 7y ago
  >Softricity was absolutely amazing but shelved Why do you say that? I thought it was just renamed App-V and it's still going strong to this day. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-management/app-v/appv-for-windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-managem...
anticensor 7y ago
Microsoft GitHub is currently part of core Microsoft software development infrastructure. Windows source code resides on GitHub even.

Well, some other people in the comments disagree. And it hasn't happened yet, but it's the way they don't manage / integrate acquisitions very well unless they're wowie complementary products like Visio. Danger dropped off a cliff and Softricity was absolutely amazing but shelved, so friends of mine basically repeated the theme for VMware View and were acquihired by VMware. Time will tell where GH goes.

bbrree66 7y ago
There are so many logical flaws here. People's comments are meaningless, you can look at historical GitHub up-time and see that it hasn't changed meaningfully. "And it hasn't happened yet" Ah yes, now you have to backtrack from: it happened! to... no wait I promise it will happen! Based on... what? The fact that some acquisitions don't go well? This is all pure speculation with no substantiation. I recommend learning about confirmation bias.
- endorphone 7y ago
  To be fair, they didn't say that was the cause of the current outage. They made a general observation that Microsoft-acquired companies degrade, which seems like a fairly reasonable observation: The goal of being the best Git service/repo falls by the wayside as other corporate goals push in.
- erikbye 7y ago
  I agree, but I just now took a look here: https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=7 https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=7 I went back from the time of Microsoft's acquisition, and that status seems heavily underreported. At least when I checked now, it was all green, green. That does not reflect my experience.
stickfigure 7y ago
Early Danger adopter here. The hiptop was great for its time but with the advent of the iPhone, it was obsolete. That was before the MS acquisition. Rubin (and presumably much of his team) had long prior left for Android. Danger was already in freefall by the time of the acquisition. You can't blame Microsoft for that.
bennyelv 7y ago
>Softricity was absolutely amazing but shelved Why do you say that? I thought it was just renamed App-V and it's still going strong to this day. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-management/app-v/appv-for-windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-managem...

anticensor 7y ago

Microsoft GitHub is currently part of core Microsoft software development infrastructure. Windows source code resides on GitHub even.