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Another way to look at this is that it has created an opening for competitors to fill that gap, especially appveyor, circleci, and codeship.

That TravisCI is still the market leader in the cloud CI space suggests that they're making the right call by letting others pick up the more niche parts of the market.

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> That TravisCI is still the market leader in the cloud CI space suggests that they're making the right call by letting others pick up the more niche parts of the market.

Windows is one third of the server market and over 90% of the desktop market. Calling Windows a niche is simply wrong.

How many of those Windows servers are only running Exchange and Active Directory and nothing else? If I had to guess, I'd say 70% or more but maybe someone else has better estimates.

70%+ is probably accurate if you include the whole microsoft enterprise ecosystem (sharepoint etc in addition to what you mentioned)

windows is definitely a minority in web hosting

Depends on your perspective, I suppose. But I was just talking to a web- and app-based service company that started on the Microsoft stack circa 2001. They're migrating away from it partly because of tech issues, but mainly because it's much harder to hire people.

If you look at yesterday's "who's hiring" post, it's way, way less than a third of positions that are using Windows server technologies.

The windows devs I know just use whatever comes from Microsoft and are not interested in anything else. They believe Microsoft has the best tech :)

> That TravisCI is still the market leader in the cloud CI space

Is it?

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