Source: thenewstack.io
GitLab Thrives in China and with Open SourceCategory: Software, Security, Microsoft, Kubernetes, Jenkins, github, gitlab, bitbucket
The trends underlying GitLab‘s growth and recent IPO are often misunderstood. As GitLab continues to push itself as a DevOps platform, it will continue to push itself as both a single toolchain companies can rely on and as part of a larger offering platform teams offer developers.
By 2019, it had become obvious that measuring market share for GitLab and GitHub was problematic because no one could agree on the parameters of the actual market they competed in. In a series of articles, this column asked whether or not GitLab and GitHub would compete only in niche markets or as bundlers of DevOps and CI/CD services.
In 2021, 53% of those utilizing GitHub for open source compliance and 32% use GitLab (up from 30% in 2020), according to more than 500 companies surveyed by The New Stack, Linux Foundation Research, and the TODO Group.
GitLab, GitHub and Atlassian will continue to compete for the hearts and minds of the open source community.
By 2019, it had become obvious that measuring market share for GitLab and GitHub was problematic because no one could agree on the parameters of the actual market they competed in. In a series of articles, this column asked whether or not GitLab and GitHub would compete only in niche markets or as bundlers of DevOps and CI/CD services.
In 2021, 53% of those utilizing GitHub for open source compliance and 32% use GitLab (up from 30% in 2020), according to more than 500 companies surveyed by The New Stack, Linux Foundation Research, and the TODO Group.
GitLab, GitHub and Atlassian will continue to compete for the hearts and minds of the open source community.
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