GitLab Explores Sale (reuters.com) 22
GitLab, a U.S. provider of cloud-based software development tools whose investors include Google parent Alphabet, is exploring a sale after attracting acquisition interest, Reuters is reporting. From the report: GitLab, which has a market value of about $8 billion, is working with investment bankers on a sale process that has attracted interest from peers, including cloud monitoring firm Datadog, the sources said. Any deal is still weeks away and no agreement is certain, the sources said, requesting anonymity because the matter is confidential.
Ironic if Microsoft bought them (Score:2)
Microsoft already owns GitHub so it would be ironic if Microsoft bought GitLab (so they could have even more access for Machine Learning training data.)
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Why not? Pretty sure people all over the world think Microsoft is synonymous with git.
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More like git out of here I'm not paying a $9.95/mo for Solitaire.
Re: Ironic if Microsoft bought them (Score:1)
Once upon a time, I thought that gitlab would be a good acquisition for microsoft. Obviously before github and before bill gates left.
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Your dates are off. Gates left the role of chairman of Microsoft in February 2014. GitLab was formed right around the same time and didn't hit most people's radar for a while after that. GitHub was formed in 2008, and Microsoft started using it in 2012.
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Your dates are off. Gates left the role of chairman of Microsoft in February 2014. GitLab was formed right around the same time and didn't hit most people's radar for a while after that. GitHub was formed in 2008, and Microsoft started using it in 2012.
Bill was finally ejected from the board due to sex scandal in 2020. Maybe that's what the GP meant. (But I came here to make your point, actually.)
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Whatever the dates, Microsoft didn't buy GitHub until after GitLab existed, which I know because I moved code from the former to the latter because fuck Microsoft.
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Why not? Pretty sure people all over the world think Microsoft is synonymous with git.
Which is amusing because it was created by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel source code
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Although the cloud computing isn't the hot buzzword right now, so maybe Google will buy it to train Gemini.
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Bummer. (Score:3)
Re:Bummer. (Score:5, Informative)
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From Github (ironically): "Gogs is a project that aims to build a simple, stable and extensible self-hosted Git service that can be set up in the most painless way."
The whole point is independence (Score:2)
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*Ass beat by young people*
Old Man: "I love the young people!"
*Young people sign up for Old Man's new trick in droves.*
Gitlab is interesting (Score:3)
The superficial experience is pretty good and fairly comprehensive.
But dig any deeper and it's kind of a mess of resource hog stuff held together by duct tape with fairly severe security defects constantly. It's remarkable that it works as well as it does, but I wouldn't go in new with a gitlab install if I had even a bit of a choice.
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Yeah, I (briefly) set up a self-hosted gitlab instance a couple months ago. I couldn't believe what a resource hog it turned out to be! C'mon, this is just supposed to be a git server with a gui on top...
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I had the same experience, but it made complete sense when I found out it is written in Ruby.
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Yes. And it's very heavy; I have a small KVM instance at a data centre and Gitlab bogged it down terribly. I tried gitea and then switched to the forgejo fork; much easier to install and much lighter on the CPU.
What is the purchase by Broadcom over/under line (Score:2)
Datadog... (Score:2)
If Datadog buys them, does that mean we'll get charged by the commit?