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I worked with someone who was surprised the company didn’t use Bitbucket and Discord. They were unhappy about both.

Discord I get, at least from a community or network effect, but Bitbucket? I can’t figure out why anyone but a CTO looking to save a buck would prefer Bitbucket.

We use BitBucket where I work. Due to certain export regulations it's simpler for us to keep as many services as possible on-prem if they're going to contain any of our intellectual property, so BitBucket Server it is. There are other options of course, but all of the cloud solutions were off the table.

But why not GitLab or GitHub’s on prem servers?

I wouldn't know, the choice was made years before I joined the company, and I haven't come across anyone who told me what considerations went in back then.

sorry for the tangent, how you deal with AI?

Why would you expect them to? It's really easy to live without AI.

nothing prevents them to run a gpu locally or on their own infra.

I was asking because I wonder what the enterprises that want to both use AI on their workflows like LLM's and have air-gap owned 100% data and pipelines are doing rn.

Feels like one of the few areas where to compete with big labs to me, might be wrong

External AI are banned, local or otherwise on-prem models are allowed. We're currently experimenting with some kind of llama instance running on one of our servers, but I personally don't use it much.

Presumably they don't use it.

I cannot imagine many jobs use Discord over Slack/Teams unless they’re gaming related. This was not a gaming related job.

I actually quite like the interface of bitbucket. I think it's better, in a lot of ways, compared to gitlab and github.

What I hate about bitbucket is how stagnated it is.

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