Jun 06, 2018 12:30:00

"GitLab" conflict of GitHub will open free plans free of charge for open source projects and educational institutions

Microsoft acquired GitHubWas announced on the following day on June 5, 2018 (local time), GitLab who is offering similar services at the later generations of GitHub provides a payment plan offered at a rate of 99 dollars a month (about 11,000 yen) Announced that it will open for free for open source projects and educational institutions.

GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source | GitLab
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/05/gitlab-ultimate-and-gold-free-for-education-and-open-source/

GitLab is a company that provides the same code repository hosting service as GitHub, founded in 2014. We started providing services in the form of following GitHub, which was founded in 2008, and initially we had an evaluation that the service content is weaker than GitHub, but we have been filling up the difference by strengthening the development team later . Just after Microsoft 's acquisition of GitHub was announced, the number of accesses to GitLab has increased sharply, and on Twitter attracted attention, such as more than 2,000 tweets with a hashtag "# moo movingtogitlab (move to GitLab)" posted It was.

movingtogitlab (@ movingtogitlab) | Twitter
https://twitter.com/movingtogitlab

In addition, the movement to actually move from GitHub to GitLab is also strengthening, and even over 100,000 repositories are imported into GitLab. GitLab responded sensitively to this situation and was offering a offer to discount 75% for "Gold" plan and "Ultimate" plan for new users for 1 year.

#movingtogitlab | GitLab
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/03/movingtogitlab/

And furthermore, GitLab announced that it will free some of the paid plan free of charge, although it is limited to open source projects and educational institutions. "Ultimate" of the type which prepares servers on its own was a monthly charge of $ 99 (about 11,000 yen), but this will be free.

Also, the server is free for $ 99 (about 11,000 yen) monthly "Gold" of type using "GitLab.com". This plan is targeted at educational institutions,Individual students are out of scopePoints are caution needed. Also, although free support versions of Ultimate and Gold are not supported, it is possible to add $ 4.95 per month (about 550 yen) per user per user minus 95% off normal price.

As for GitLab, Apple announced that "Xcode 10" will support GitLab at the developer conference "WWDC 2018", and it seems that this is also a tailwind material.