ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity

Re:ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity by icebraining on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:11PM (#15084236)

I never worked with them, but their CI product seems solid, and a few of its concepts seem to have predated the more popular competition by a few years: https://www.gocd.org/

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Re:ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity by hugs on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:51PM (#15087005)

With CruiseControl, ThoughtWorks practically invented the CI tool category. https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration....

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Re:ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity by a-dub on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:04PM (#15087318)

bullshit. continuous integration came out of netscape, which was open sourced by mozilla in the late '90s.

i worked for a company in the mid '00s that had some thoughtworks people come in. they were spouting all sorts of nonsense about design patterns and this and that.

i asked "how come nobody in open source speaks like this?" "oh, well you know the scope and scale of the projects and the quality of the code in the open source world doesn't compare to that which is locked up inside of companies..."

mhmm...

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Re:ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity by hugs on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:46PM (#15087440)

Okay, I stand corrected. Sorry about that. After some googling... Are you referring to Tinderbox? https://oduinn.com/2014/06/04/farewell-to-tinderbox/

(It looks like Tinderbox predates CruiseControl by 3/4 years.)

Also, the CI Wikipedia page should probably be fixed to also include info about Mozilla's CI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration

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