The fact that Microsoft is buying GitHub has left a lot of developers with a deep feeling of unease and a lot of them are now looking for alternatives.
The interest in moving to GitLab is very real as the company tells me that it saw more than 14,300 unique visitors to its site after the GitHub news was announced yesterday and that those developers opened more than 100,000 new repositories on GitLab.com. Most of these surely tried GitLabâs free but limited Core plan, which includes all of the basics but which isnât really suited for larger projects.
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Microsoftâs GitHub takeover sends shockwaves through the open-source developer ecosystem - SiliconANGLE
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Microsoft promises to keep GitHub independent and open, TechCrunch
âDevs are flooding to GitLab amidst Github Microsoft acquisition rumorsâ, TNW
Right to be scared? Probably. Everyone knows how Ellison and Oracle screwed up Java PLUS endless lawsuits against Google and Android.
Does Google, Facebook... YOU have a plan B?
Today, Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement to acquire San Francisco-based open-source development community GitHub Inc. for $7.5 billion.
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Be that as it may, there is also a strong likelihood that Microsoft, based on its public statements so far, will take the following next steps once it completes its acquisition of GitHub:
Move hosting of GitHub from Amazon Web Services to its own Azure cloud computing infrastructure;
Position GitHub as a strategic onramp to its Azure public cloud infrastructure;
Introduce DevOps tools to accelerate code deployment from GitHub repos to Azure;
Provide a transparent handoff for developers navigating between the Visual Studio Code and GitHub experiences;
Ramp up marketing of Azure and other Microsoft offerings through GitHub;
Rapidly integrate LinkedIn with GitHub in order to grow the Azure developer ecosystem; and
Converge GitHubâs Electron cross-platform development framework with Microsoftâs own Blazor open-source technology for progressive Web apps.
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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub (bloomberg.com)
Microsoft acquires Github (microsoft.com)Â
Hello, GitHub - Nat Friedman MS Exec is the new GitHub CEO
Microsoft Is Buying GitHub. Now It Has to Convince GitHubâs Users to Trust It., Slate
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Microsoft Buys Wand Labs to Develop Conversational Intelligence
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[dropcap]M[/dropcap]icrosoft just announced that it has acquired Wand Labs, a startup company that focuses on messaging and chatbots. Unfortunately, the two parties didnât disclose the terms of the deal yet.
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