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I predict that GitHub will acquire Campfire.

by luigi 13y ago

joshmlewis 13y ago
It's definitely possible but I wonder what Githubs strategy long term is and how it would fit into that. While I'm sure there are lot of people that use Campfire at GH (or maybe not), it may not be right for them to take care of and expand.
robotcookies 13y ago
But Github is already doing what 37signals is aiming for and that is being a company focused on a single product. I'd think they want to maintain that.
- unfunco 13y ago
  Whilst GitHub itself is definitely the focus at GitHub, Inc. They also have other products, they have a job board too, and Speaker Deck, and Gauges.
  - chipotle_coyote 13y ago
    They actually sold Gauges to Fastest Forward a couple months ago. Hopefully the new owners will give it some much-needed love; it's pretty, but... let's say unnecessarily minimalist. (If there's a way to get it to give me all the referers in a time period other than day-by-day, for instance, I still haven't figured it out.)
  - timdorr 13y ago
    They sold Gauges: http://fastestforward.com/blog/archives/2013/11/01/fastest-forward-and-gauges-are-bff http://fastestforward.com/blog/archives/2013/11/01/fastest-f...
michaelbuckbee 13y ago
My bet was going to be Atlassian. They have the clearest competitor to Campfire (Hipchat), a history of pulling off acquisitions (Bitbucket) and from 37Signals perspective could probably make a better case that they could take care / migrate their customers.
- subbu 13y ago
  I doubt unless they want to kill Hipchat and use Campfire. We will not sell either of these products to a company that is planning to shut the products down. IMO Hipchat is a better chat tool than Campfire.
  - lucaspiller 13y ago
    Why kill either? They are already a big player in the market, if they have Campfire too their will dominate it.
    - lmm 13y ago
      Maintaining two products that overlap that much is going to look like a waste sooner or later.
      - Uchikoma 13y ago
        They could just have two different frontends, everything else the same.
sstarr 13y ago
Aren't GitHub involved with Gitter somehow? https://gitter.im/ https://gitter.im/
- ksec 13y ago
  I thought they were done by two separate group. Would be great if Gitter was part of Github though.
nbevans 13y ago
Not sure why anybody would want to acquire Campfire? It's an utterly terrible product. If GitHub wanted to added chat collaboration features they'd write them from scratch based upon WebSockets / Socket.IO... not the legacy polling that Campfire does!
- jbrooksuk 13y ago
  GitHub are known to have invested a lot in using Campfire, for example their bot Hubot integrates really well and they use it to manage the majority of their infrastructure.

I predict that GitHub will acquire Campfire.

by luigi 13y ago

I predict that GitHub will acquire Campfire.

It's definitely possible but I wonder what Githubs strategy long term is and how it would fit into that. While I'm sure there are lot of people that use Campfire at GH (or maybe not), it may not be right for them to take care of and expand.

robotcookies 13y ago

But Github is already doing what 37signals is aiming for and that is being a company focused on a single product. I'd think they want to maintain that.

unfunco 13y ago
Whilst GitHub itself is definitely the focus at GitHub, Inc. They also have other products, they have a job board too, and Speaker Deck, and Gauges.
- chipotle_coyote 13y ago
  They actually sold Gauges to Fastest Forward a couple months ago. Hopefully the new owners will give it some much-needed love; it's pretty, but... let's say unnecessarily minimalist. (If there's a way to get it to give me all the referers in a time period other than day-by-day, for instance, I still haven't figured it out.)
- timdorr 13y ago
  They sold Gauges: http://fastestforward.com/blog/archives/2013/11/01/fastest-forward-and-gauges-are-bff http://fastestforward.com/blog/archives/2013/11/01/fastest-f...

michaelbuckbee 13y ago

My bet was going to be Atlassian. They have the clearest competitor to Campfire (Hipchat), a history of pulling off acquisitions (Bitbucket) and from 37Signals perspective could probably make a better case that they could take care / migrate their customers.

subbu 13y ago
I doubt unless they want to kill Hipchat and use Campfire. We will not sell either of these products to a company that is planning to shut the products down. IMO Hipchat is a better chat tool than Campfire.
- lucaspiller 13y ago
  Why kill either? They are already a big player in the market, if they have Campfire too their will dominate it.
  - lmm 13y ago
    Maintaining two products that overlap that much is going to look like a waste sooner or later.
    - Uchikoma 13y ago
      They could just have two different frontends, everything else the same.

sstarr 13y ago

Aren't GitHub involved with Gitter somehow? https://gitter.im/ https://gitter.im/

ksec 13y ago
I thought they were done by two separate group. Would be great if Gitter was part of Github though.

nbevans 13y ago

Not sure why anybody would want to acquire Campfire? It's an utterly terrible product. If GitHub wanted to added chat collaboration features they'd write them from scratch based upon WebSockets / Socket.IO... not the legacy polling that Campfire does!

jbrooksuk 13y ago
GitHub are known to have invested a lot in using Campfire, for example their bot Hubot integrates really well and they use it to manage the majority of their infrastructure.