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i think Github and similar hosted SCM providers are potential competitors. Atlassian’s line of enterprise products are also similar to our offerings. Github is definitely the company we fear (and have a crazy amount of respect and admiration for). At their core though I think Github and Backyard have different focus’. Github is focused on (and in my opinion succeeding at) being the best-in-breed Source Control platform, which means things like centralized authentication, deployment, continuous integration, internal communication, etc are not (currently) their focus. Backyard’s focus will be providing a complete integrated infrastructure platform. So while SCM will be an important component, it wont be the sole focus of our company.


I would try to find a way to complement GitHub, not compete with it.


we currently offer only a hosted git & svn option for scm. we definitely plan to offer integrations with GitHub in the future, because we think their service is awesome and we understand that a lot of businesses have already chosen them as their scm provider.




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