Gitlab from YC to IPO

Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by killerstorm on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:11PM (#28867831)

> My thought at the time was that no open source company had ever been super successful except RedHat

Sun bought MySQL for 1 billion USD in 2008, does that not count as successful?

Also, MongoDB, Elastic and many many others...

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by ZetaZero on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:39PM (#28868964)

MongoDB and Elastic are successful because they are locking features behind a paid license. Does that make it a successful open source company?

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by codetrotter on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:48PM (#28869065)

GitLab has features in the Enterprise edition that aren’t in the Community edition don’t they?

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by ZetaZero on Friday October 15, 2021 @07:55AM (#28876785)

Yeah, I wasn't trying to say GitHub is different. Instead, this shows a route to profitability for these companies.

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by djbusby on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:51PM (#28870668)

Correct.

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by strzibny on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:48PM (#28869073)

But GitLab is the same concept...

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by jedberg on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:43PM (#28868241)

I meant there were no successful public companies based on open source except RedHat in 2015.

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