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The cost of the great developer tool consolidation

Navigating a shrinking landscape.
August 13, 2024

A series of high-profile acquisitions in the developer tooling space will likely come at a cost to end users, with a few possible wins if you squint hard enough.

The world of developer tools has gotten noticeably smaller in recent years. IBM acquired the Terraform maker Hashicorp. Broadcom picked up VMware. Cisco hoovered up Isovalent and Splunk. Harness picked up Split. Not to mention, Microsoft buying Github back in 2018. More recently, GitLab has been exploring a sale.

“The developer tool market is very dynamic at the moment, and we are seeing activity around vendor acquisition and new entrants to the market,” says Wing To, GM of Intelligent DevOps and Security for Digital.ai.

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