Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO

Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO by manquer on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:23PM (#42334484)

Many options , older companies like IBM, Google, SAP, Oracle or even Salesforce (already own heroku in dev tooling space so not far fetched ) with stable or slowing market presence in engineering departments

Mid sized newer companies likes Hashicorp or datadog or vercel who target developers as customers .

Gitlab gives access to a large audience of developers to cross sell most dev tools so all these orgs can get a lot of returns paying more than the standalone value of gitlab itself.

The best fit would be companies like Hashicorp who have strong open source pedigree so users won’t be turned off and leave

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Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO by breadandcheese on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:42PM (#42334674)

Did I miss something? Didn't IBM acquire Hashicorp?

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Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO by manquer on Thursday December 05, 2024 @08:14PM (#42334914)

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Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO by firesteelrain on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:07PM (#42335420)

GitLab Premium already integrates with HashiCorp Vault [1]

GitLab supports storing the Terraform state and includes Terraform templates however they are moving to OpenTofu in 18.x [2]

1. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/secrets/hashicorp_vault.html 2. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/update/deprecations.html

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Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO by manquer on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:45PM (#42335721)

I wasn't thinking about a few focused features or integrations, but more generally. i.e non product things like sales and license packaging and son on.

If an acquisition has to make sense there should be a clear path to monetize it, for IBM core or its HashiCorp unit or any other buyer that will not just be through some light integrations alone, they can achieved with partnerships after all you don't need to buy the organization for it.

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Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO by firesteelrain on Friday December 06, 2024 @07:31AM (#42339193)

Agree. What did you have in mind? The two products are already lightly integrated.

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Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO by susanthenerd on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:02AM (#42337147)

> The best fit would be companies like Hashicorp who have strong open source pedigree so users won’t be turned off and leave

HashiCorp might not be the best fit anymore. Last year, they switched to a license that isn't open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306

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Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO by bigfatkitten on Friday December 06, 2024 @06:43AM (#42338869)

Salesforce let Heroku wither and die. I don't see them sticking their toes into the dev tooling space again anytime soon.

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