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>How can anyone compete against a trillion dollar company that's fine with subsidizing an unprofitable business line? It sounds like impossible, but it's not a
by jpalomaki 2y ago
>How can anyone compete against a trillion dollar company that's fine with subsidizing an unprofitable business line?
It sounds like impossible, but it's not always. Sometimes large companies loose the focus and become slow. There can be multiple competing products and teams are prevented from building the best product in order to not interfere more profitable business. Microsoft for example has both GitHub and Azure DevOps.
One example of how the infinite resources do not always help. Year ago GitHub decided not proceed with adding support for Python packages in GitHub packages.
"This is no longer planned due to a change in our strategic priorities and the allocation of our resources towards higher-priority initiatives." [1]
[1] https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/94#issuecomment-1581086839 https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/94#issuecomment-158...
- nicce 2y ago> Microsoft for example has both GitHub and Azure DevOps. Not sure what you meant, but this is indeed visible in GitHub, maybe in positive way. GitHub Runners are specifically coded with C# and ASP.NET Core and designed to be used on Azure, while not limited so. Maybe the adaption of current GitHub Actions would not happened so efficiently without this.
- everfrustrated 2y ago>Microsoft for example has both GitHub and Azure DevOps. GitHub's Actions product was a rebrand of the Azure DevOps product. It wouldn't exist otherwise.