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GitLab is reportedly considering a sale, with interest from multiple buyers including cloud monitoring firm Datadog. The company, valued at approximately $8 billion, is a significant player in software development with over 30 million registered users. GitLab faces competitive pressures from rivals like Microsoft and has seen its shares fall 16% this year. The potential sale is part of a broader trend of M&A activity in the tech sector, driven by the need to expand service offerings.

GitLab is reportedly up for sale

Let’s be honest. GitLab was never a (serious) competition. Either you go full enterprise and join in Github or you go all in self hosted. GitLab was a relic from times when “review bombing” happened against tiny Github TOS changes. It was never more than a protest against Github. It was never a competitor against Github or self hosted solutions. And to be totaly fair, it lacks functionality compared to Github and self hosted solutions.
This step is not surprising, it is only surprising GitLab survived for this long. And if it is not being put fully open or aquired by Github or included into one of the few huge Dev-Suits, I wouldn’t be surprised if GitLab closes its doors for good soon.

this could either go really good, or really bad

Used to use gitlab when private repo was free there while it cost money in Github. then one day github offered private repo setting for free and I’ve never touched gitlab since :)