If you look at how the Xamarin acquisition went, this seems like a likely outcome.
I think Microsoft can really help GitHub in the Enterprise space. Imagine GitHub being able to offer GitHub Enterprise for free for the first 10 users. Imagine being able to discount GitHub Enterprise heavily.
I'm really curious what will happen with GitHub Enterprise. Doesn't it compete in the same space as VSTS/TFS?
I guess the question is who will hurt the most. Will this hurt non microsoft products more or less. Microsoft might want to funnel people to their cloud and sacrificing tfs might make sense.
Re:Hello, GitHub
by marssaxman on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:16PM
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I'm looking into Bitbucket right now, actually, and "unlimited private repos" is the first selling point listed on their pricing page (https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing). What I haven't been able to discover yet is what they charge for public repos, which are all I care about.
I cant understand this policy from Atlassian - if they arent going to try and become the next default OSS Git repo service on the back of this aquisition they need to fire their strategy team.
Re:Hello, GitHub
by yappadappadoo on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:44PM
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Bitbucket doesn't charge for public repositories - we can definitely do a better job of making that clearer on our pricing page.
Re:Hello, GitHub
by marssaxman on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:46PM
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Good to know, thanks!
What is baffling for me, is how worried some people seem to be. If you understand the Git hosting space, you would know Microsoft tried to compete with GitHub and failed miserably.
It is quite clear the value that GitHub provides is data and there is ABSOLUTELY no way Microsoft would want to disturb this. In fact, Bitbucket, GitLab and others should be concerned that Microsoft might treat GitHub as a loss leader and provide private repos for free.