▲ 307 ▼ GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft (www.theverge.com) submitted 4 months ago by baatliwala@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 52 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 16 points 4 months ago (5 children) Embrace, expand, extinguish. permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] ID10T@programming.dev 37 points 4 months ago* (4 children) I know this is fun to point and say about MS, but not really the case here IMO. Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish describes the MS strategy for creating/maintaining a monopoly - but GitHub nearly is a monopoly. Extinguishing it only takes themselves out of the competition. This is just plain old mismanagement if you ask me, and ostensibly a victim of the current AI craze. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] whaleross@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (3 children) Yeah, it's not like Microsoft has a different platform they want to push instead, unless you want code in Microsoft Word. It's middle managers getting their cost cutting efficiency in the log before moving up to destroy something else on a bigger scale. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (2 children) I mean they literally have azure devops… Not that they are pushing it, but they do have a full fledged mature second offering permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) I haven't used it but I was under the impression that it is part closer to AWS than GitHub, as in a locked in platform rather than agnostic versioning and deployment. But I haven't really used much or the business parts of GitHub either though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago It’s not as “good” as GitHub, but it gets the job done. Supports git, azure pipelines is similar to GitHub pipelines, etc. It’s been around longer than azure has, it was originally Team Foundation Server permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ID10T@programming.dev 37 points 4 months ago* (4 children) I know this is fun to point and say about MS, but not really the case here IMO. Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish describes the MS strategy for creating/maintaining a monopoly - but GitHub nearly is a monopoly. Extinguishing it only takes themselves out of the competition. This is just plain old mismanagement if you ask me, and ostensibly a victim of the current AI craze. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] whaleross@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (3 children) Yeah, it's not like Microsoft has a different platform they want to push instead, unless you want code in Microsoft Word. It's middle managers getting their cost cutting efficiency in the log before moving up to destroy something else on a bigger scale. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (2 children) I mean they literally have azure devops… Not that they are pushing it, but they do have a full fledged mature second offering permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) I haven't used it but I was under the impression that it is part closer to AWS than GitHub, as in a locked in platform rather than agnostic versioning and deployment. But I haven't really used much or the business parts of GitHub either though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago It’s not as “good” as GitHub, but it gets the job done. Supports git, azure pipelines is similar to GitHub pipelines, etc. It’s been around longer than azure has, it was originally Team Foundation Server permalink fedilink source parent
[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (3 children) Yeah, it's not like Microsoft has a different platform they want to push instead, unless you want code in Microsoft Word. It's middle managers getting their cost cutting efficiency in the log before moving up to destroy something else on a bigger scale. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (2 children) I mean they literally have azure devops… Not that they are pushing it, but they do have a full fledged mature second offering permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) I haven't used it but I was under the impression that it is part closer to AWS than GitHub, as in a locked in platform rather than agnostic versioning and deployment. But I haven't really used much or the business parts of GitHub either though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago It’s not as “good” as GitHub, but it gets the job done. Supports git, azure pipelines is similar to GitHub pipelines, etc. It’s been around longer than azure has, it was originally Team Foundation Server permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (2 children) I mean they literally have azure devops… Not that they are pushing it, but they do have a full fledged mature second offering permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) I haven't used it but I was under the impression that it is part closer to AWS than GitHub, as in a locked in platform rather than agnostic versioning and deployment. But I haven't really used much or the business parts of GitHub either though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago It’s not as “good” as GitHub, but it gets the job done. Supports git, azure pipelines is similar to GitHub pipelines, etc. It’s been around longer than azure has, it was originally Team Foundation Server permalink fedilink source parent
[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (1 child) I haven't used it but I was under the impression that it is part closer to AWS than GitHub, as in a locked in platform rather than agnostic versioning and deployment. But I haven't really used much or the business parts of GitHub either though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago It’s not as “good” as GitHub, but it gets the job done. Supports git, azure pipelines is similar to GitHub pipelines, etc. It’s been around longer than azure has, it was originally Team Foundation Server permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago It’s not as “good” as GitHub, but it gets the job done. Supports git, azure pipelines is similar to GitHub pipelines, etc. It’s been around longer than azure has, it was originally Team Foundation Server permalink fedilink source parent