"Site will go read-only in October and will be turned into static archive by year end."
Microsoft announced Friday that CodePlex, the company's open source project-hosting service, will be closed down.
Started in 2006, the service offered an alternative to SourceForge. It was based initially on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server source control and later added options to use Subversion, Mercurial, and Git.
At the time, there weren't a tremendous number of good options for hosting projects. SourceForge was the big one, but it always seemed light on feature development and heavy on advertising. CodePlex on the Web was much more attractive and less cluttered. The use of TFS for source control meant it also had strong integration in Visual Studio.
But these days, GitHub is the default choice for most open source projects. This applies to Microsoft, too; the company is using GitHub to host projects such as .NET and its Chakra JavaScript engine. Activity on CodePlex has declined, with fewer than 350 projects seeing code commits over the last 30 days.
Source: ArsTechnica
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @04:43AM (2 children)
Facebook is the worst. It acquires companies with working products, shuts them down, and replaces them with nothing. At least the rest gave their closed acquisitions and canceled projects at least some semblance of actually trying to make them work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @09:09AM
I'm pretty sure Apple is almost as bad as Facebook, and Microsoft used to be good at it too (maybe they still do).
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 03 2017, @03:32PM
Is that better or worse than Oracle acquiring Sun and 75% of the important people quitting?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"