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Be careful when considering the market share of these vendors based on anecdotal SaaS experience. A large portion of their revenue comes from their enterprise editions which are hosted in-house. We're seeing significant growth by GitLab in this area with our enterprise clients.

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I previously worked at GitLab, and I can confirm this is the point that I find most commenters on HN miss. GitLab's web platform, at the moment, is essentially a marketing expense to get people to use GitLab and push it into their day jobs.

I saw somewhere MongoDB claimed like near universal usage in fortune 100s or 500s, meaning Mongo was used at all these big, successful companies.

GitLab is that...it's mongodb to GitHub PostgreSQL. GitHub isn't "cool" anymore but it powers the world. GitLab is "cool" to some, but ultimately it's software sugar.

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