Another thing that's missing in this overall thread is context.... .... context of companies like SF, Yahoo, etc. Basically, SF (Yahoo, etc.) has been in exist

Another thing that's missing in this overall thread is context.... .... context of companies like SF, Yahoo, etc. Basically, SF (Yahoo, etc.) has been in existence before the days of dropping server costs, dropping bandwidth costs, dropping storage space costs and before the term devops was even being used in conversations ;-) Given this, and the fact that people were still figuring out how to scale and serve in the 90s, SF (along with Yahoo and some other web pioneers) was going ahead and practically doing it to scale, and doing it for "free" (if you train yourself to ignore the irrelevant ads, it is free!). To put this in context, Github/Bitbucket are all <5 years old by contrast. They've had all the time in the World to learn from the mistakes of these giants, and use all their learnings to get things right, and capitalise on EC2/AWS etc. (which was not possible during SF's setup period) :-) So, given that some of these companies are the "giants" whose shoulders have enabled us to come this far, context is very inmportant in trying to understand these venerable beasts! They may appear to be long in the tooth by today's standards but they have lent us their shoulders, on whom today's jazz and pizzazz depend upon. And for that I will always have a soft spot and gratitude for these internet pioneers like Yahoo, SF, etc. EDIT: Also to remember is, the business model around file hosting/repository management was not the same in the 90s until mid-2000s as it is now, so that also needs to be kept in context. P.S: Not affiliated to Sourceforge in any way.