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Strong points... and this isn't the first time Microsoft has been in a position to dominate a market and fumbled it for one reason or another (they had a viable
by mikece 6y ago
Strong points... and this isn't the first time Microsoft has been in a position to dominate a market and fumbled it for one reason or another (they had a viable -- though expensive -- eReader LONG before the Kindle, they had smartphones with Windows CE before Blackberry...).
I have suspected for a couple years that JetBrains is an OBVIOUS acquisition target for Microsoft (if for no other reason than to deny them to Google). What is Amazon scooped up JetBrains, made all of the products free to AWS clients with a minimum monthly spend, and either acquired or forked GitLab to build a cohesive IDE/Source Control/CI-CD/Cloud Hosting package -- all with a single invoice?
All of that said, I don't think Microsoft is sufficiently organized to capitalize on the opportunity at hand.
- QuinnyPig 6y agoI don’t think it would work. Amazon’s problem is not its lack of a given tool, but rather an entire culture that’s incapable of doing what’s needed to win here.
- mikece 6y agoWhich leaves Google as the only other likely suitor... and I don't think they would acquire JetBrains when they get the milk (I mean, Android Studio) for free. As someone who is a .NET developer and used Visual Studio on Windows, Xamarin Studio/VS for Mac, Rider, Android Studio, and IntelliJ, I think the JetBrains IDEs would be an upgrade over Visual Studio in many ways AND open the door to me moving to Linux full time and forever more! That's my wish... but I don't think it will happen.