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GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm)GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm)Posted Jul 9, 2012 22:40 UTC (Mon) by karim (subscriber, #114)Parent article: GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm)
I've got to be missing it, but I fail to see the VC-type cash liquidity exit on this one. SourceForge was there before and went through something similar. Somehow, it seems startups (and their funders) generally seem to confuse success in responding to a niche need with ability to do a 10x exit.
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GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm) Posted Jul 9, 2012 23:16 UTC (Mon) by geofft (subscriber, #59789) [Link]
Well, GitHub has a product they can sell to enterprises -- there's no reason they can't be as profitable as Perforce, ClearCase, etc. have been (or for a slightly more current example, Atlassian). SourceForge doesn't have anything to offer a company.
GitHub also has a lot of the people doing development of git itself (another notable difference from SourceForge), so the team's ability to come up with a different product that is highly profitable is much more clearly there, even if github.com never becomes profitable.
GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm) Posted Jul 10, 2012 0:15 UTC (Tue) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link]
"Nothing to offer enterprises" besides, you know, SourceForge Enterprise Edition ;)
GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm) Posted Jul 10, 2012 20:22 UTC (Tue) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]
Yes, that's what he said.
GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm) Posted Jul 13, 2012 16:27 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]
I am a GitHub customer. The convenience of having a little private repository on the web where I can stash some code I'm too embarrassed to make public is a Good Thing.
GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm) Posted Jul 10, 2012 18:09 UTC (Tue) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]
there is a HUGE opportunity to unify online development tools, and github actually has a shot if they can put the money to good use, there are many data islands here to be bridged
they've got source repos covered. git is the industry leader, and github has established themselves as the de facto public repo site
the github bug tracker is terrible, but with some serious work, it could become good. now you can have your repo and bug tracker finally united and ditch the standalone bug tracker you are using (jira etc)
now integrate project scheduling, milestone planning and design (balsamiq etc). if it all works and doesn't suck, you have a massive win over using N different services that don't talk to each other. services like sprint.ly and trello vanish because having a data island that doesn't integrate with everything else has little value, regardless of cool ui tweaks
atlassian also seems to be making a run at integrating online dev tools into one location...it will be interesting to see how it plays out. one thing seems certain to me - the standalone sites that only perform one part of the development process in isolation (many i have mentioned above) will vanish
GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm) Posted Jul 10, 2012 18:17 UTC (Tue) by karim (subscriber, #114) [Link]
I (and I suspect many others) use github because it's a git that just works with no fuss. *That* it does and does well. It's "forking" feature is nice, but nothing I couldn't just do by cloning someone else tree. Sourceforge did many of the things you state and it still got so far. Github embodies the current open development paradigm. If past is prelude, though, these things tend to expire at some point.
GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm) Posted Jul 10, 2012 20:10 UTC (Tue) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]
i don't think the failure of sourceforge really says anything at all about github. sourceforge didn't have a dvcs that had become a social phenomenon. sourceforge didn't have any community features. sourceforge also addressed a developer market which is a fraction of the size of todays, and did so at a time when there wasn't clear acceptance of web tools in the workflow. in short: sourceforge was too early.
GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm) Posted Jul 11, 2012 1:51 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
That's not sufficient explanation. SourceForge exists today, now that the need is painfully clear, and still nobody uses it. (hyperbole of course: lots of people use it but nothing compared to GitHub).
GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm) Posted Jul 11, 2012 14:18 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Perhaps it's just that SourceForge's user interface, even post-upgrade, makes me want to stick cocktail sticks into my eyes. Its mailing list archive interface in particular is unimaginably awful: I've never seen *anything* worse.
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