Didn't Netlify have layoffs recently? Wouldn't expect a non-public company that needed to layoff +10% of their workforce to have the kind of cash to buy out another company.
Netlify acquires Gatsby
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Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby
#22Netlify just acquire 2018.
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#23Hopefully they got a good deal! Personally I don’t understand the value proposition. I would have preferred more support for 11ty or SolidStart since they employ the creators of those two frameworks already.
They are buying the Gatsby company which is more than just the Gatsby framework.
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#24Gatsby was an open-source project. What they acquired exactly? Have they purchased a usb stick installed gatsby in it?
Gatsby Inc is a SaaS that provides hosting.
Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby
#25Gatsby was an open-source project. What they acquired exactly? Have they purchased a usb stick installed gatsby in it?
I would assume all the tech around Gatsby’s enterprise offerings. If we take this example to NextJS, it would be like if they bought Vercel.
Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby
#26Gatsby was an open-source project. What they acquired exactly? Have they purchased a usb stick installed gatsby in it?
From the start of TFA:
Netlify Acquires Gatsby Inc. to Accelerate Adoption of Composable Web Architectures
Acquisition of new Valhalla Content Hub platform provides Enterprise developers increased flexibility when building composable web experiences with any modern web framework
Gatsby web framework to remain open source for all developers to use
Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby
#27Didn't Netlify have layoffs recently? Wouldn't expect a non-public company that needed to layoff +10% of their workforce to have the kind of cash to buy out another company.
Layoffs are rarely done because off lack of cash. It's just cost cutting to increase shareholder profits. An investment means potential revenue growth
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#28Gatsby was an open-source project. What they acquired exactly? Have they purchased a usb stick installed gatsby in it?
you realize that organizations that develop open source software can sell support contracts, consulting, services, hosting, etc, all things that generate revenue.
I guess you could have said the same about RedHat, yet IBM acquired them for $34 billion. I wonder why they would pay that much for an open source company? Hmmmm... there must be a reason?
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#29Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby
#30Why Gatsby, specifically? This seems like an odd choice.
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