[bnchrch]

This type of vertical integration must have Amazon a little worried.

For example, if Microsoft took a chapter from Apples (anticompetitive) playbook with Spotify, They could always make Azure Extensions N features ahead of equivalent AWS Extensions.

The productivity gains vscode devs would have by using Azure would always be more than AWS, and the cycle of user lock in would march forward.

[ralph84]

It’s surprising that Amazon hasn’t bought Atlassian or GitLab and Google hasn’t bought the other one. Maybe owning a developer platform is core to Microsoft’s DNA in a way that it could never be for a retailer or advertising company, but the synergies of having a developer platform to complement your cloud platform are obvious.

[mdaniel]

> It’s surprising that Amazon hasn’t bought Atlassian or GitLab and Google hasn’t bought the other one

GitLab and Google would have much better "synergy" since GL already runs on GCP. The ruby may be a culture clash, but I wouldn't put it past Google to have some tooling to help GL straighten out their ruby mess

Secretly, though, I want Google to buy Atlassian just to send it to KilledByGoogle

[beretguy]

Oh God, please don’t let gitlab get sold out to some big corp.

[impulser_]

Google owns 15% of GitLab and they are the largest shareholder outside of GitLab itself.