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    Bitbucket

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ABitbucket is a Git repository and code collaboration platform, featuring automated testing and code deployment. Bitbucket Cloud Premium provides AI-powered development, more granular access controls, and enforced code quality, and Bitbucket Data Center provides a self-hosted option.

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    SourceForge

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ASourceForge is a B2B software discovery platform, featuring 4000+ categories in its comparison engine that potential buyers can use to compare software by user reviews, features, pricing, integrations, operating system, and deployment.N/A
    Pricing
    BitbucketSourceForge
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    for up to 5 users
    Standard
    $3.30
    per month per user
    Premium
    $6.60
    per month per user
    Bitbucket Data Center
    starting at $44,000
    per year 1 - 500
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BitbucketSourceForge
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BitbucketSourceForge
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    Chose Bitbucket
    All 3 software works well for development and source code control, but for sure Bitbucket is the easiest to be set up and be deployed among the team. The integration with JIRA makes this a powerful tool against coding-only applications. However, for open source, it would be …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bitbucket
    I haven't really researched a whole lot with GitHub or SourceForge. I know there are a lot of people that use GitHub and it has kind of become a bit part of the industry. Whenever i have used GitHub to submit pull requests it has also seemed pretty easy to do, but I haven't …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bitbucket
    GitHub has a huge community to support, so, beside the price, is the best tool I've used as a git server.
    Gitlab is very similar to BitBucket, and for a free version as less limitations. Also is cheaper for companies, but doesn't have a smooth integration with JIRA. Also has a …
    Incentivized
    SourceForge
    Chose SourceForge
    I use SourceForge because here you can easily filter out and find the right software, and it has a huge collection of open-source software with trustworthy reviews.
    Incentivized
    Chose SourceForge
    I just think SourceForge is the best for a person who's not really interested in the code but only wants a trustworthy way to read about and decide which software to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose SourceForge
    Once again I must circle back to the incident(s) in the past where SourceForge adulterated abandoned projects... I dislike that practice immensely.

    I have selected against SourceForge in my usage for the stated reasons, and have moved on to GitHub, especially as private …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    26 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    23 Answers
    Features
    BitbucketSourceForge
    Version Control Software Features
    Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of Atlassian Bitbucket and SourceForge
    Feature
    Atlassian Bitbucket
    8.2
    3 Ratings
    7% below category average
    SourceForge
    -
    Ratings
    Branching and Merging9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version History9.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version Control Collaboration Tools9.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pull Requests9.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review Tools4.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Access Control9.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Testing Integration4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue Tracking Integration8.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branch Protection8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BitbucketSourceForge
    Small Businesses
    GitHub
    Score9.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Perforce P4
    Score7.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    BitbucketSourceForge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (66 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (14 ratings)
    6.4
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BitbucketSourceForge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    As a team we need to push code into the repo on daily basis, Bitbucket has proven that is a reliable and secure server to save and get the code available in no time. The administration part is really easy and there's an extra tool for every developer profile either if you want to use the console or a GUI like Sourcetree.
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    SourceForge
    I recommend SourceForge to anyone or business that needs both commercial and open source software. This platform has a wide variety of software with many categories that allow easy search for any project, in addition to the fact that searches can be done separately (commercial and open source software) so as not to have mixed results which go with different purpose. In addition to the fact that the community of this platform is quite active and that there are always times to discover new projects that can be useful for a company or individual person.
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    Pros
    Atlassian
    • Very easy to integrate with other DevOps tools like Jenkins and with project/workflow management tools like JIRA.
    • Very efficient in managing security and compliance standards for code, especially during pull requests, merge requests, branching, etc.
    • Very robust in performance, especially the cloud and datacenter versions hardly hit any performance issues and supports more than 2000+ developers in my company.
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    SourceForge
    • Commercial software and FOSS projects are available.
    • FOSS projects have advanced profiles such as software hosting for download as well as download metrics. As well as the released versions.
    • Commercial software profiles show detailed features, what it offers, price, frequently asked questions and a vast amount of user reviews.
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    Cons
    Atlassian
    • The code management UI is a bit rough around the edges and difficult to work with.
    • BitBucket does not have the same simplified PR management tools as other competitors.
    • It's not as easy to integrate 3rd party apps as other competitors.
    Incentivized
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    SourceForge
    • The overall design that SourceForge has really leaves a lot to be desired, although the entire platform works perfectly, I think that the design should be much more attractive.
    • There is currently no feature to save your progress on a review you are writing, so if you are writing a review and the browser is closed for some reason, all progress of the written review will be lost.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Atlassian
    All products have room for improvement. The system improves over time with better and better integrations and I look forward to even more features without paying extra! The system has increased transparency across my organization and with this transparency comes increased throughput on projects. I don't think I can go back to any other system and we are definitely married to this product.
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    SourceForge
    Souceforge was very straightforward and easy to manage. The leads worked for us so there is not a lot else to say about why I'd use it again. This isn't some complicated software product, it is a simple inbound marketing channel that is meant to generate leads and help us with brand awareness and it did exactly that.
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    Usability
    Atlassian
    The architecture of Bitbucket makes it more easily scalable than other source code management repositories. Also, administration and maintaining the instance is very easy. It integrates with JIRA and other CI/CD applications which makes it more useful to reduce the efforts. It supports multiple plugins and those bring a lot of extra functionality. It increases the overall efficiency and usefulness of Bitbucket.
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    SourceForge
    SourceForge is super easy to use and very intuitive. And their support team and campaign managers help whenever we need it. Using SourceForge as a user is easy, and administrating a business software listing is easy as well. They also have great documentation.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    SourceForge
    We've never had any issues or downtime with SourceForge. Since we've been a user, the platform has never been down. Or at least never that I've noticed.
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    Performance
    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    SourceForge
    SourceForge loads extremely quickly whether you're using the front end or administrating your product listing on the back end. All pages are snappy to load--no issues with page speed whatsoever.
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    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    The customer support provided by Atlassian (Bitbucket's parent company that also makes Jira, Confluence, etc.) is very helpful. They seem to be very concerned about any issues reported with their products and even just questions about functionality. They are constantly improving the products with new features in nearly every release. Plus they have a plethora of online documentation to reference.
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    SourceForge
    I hardly ever use the support on SourceForge, as I have not needed it. Their product works well for me. One time I had to email them and they got back to me the same day, but that's my only experience.
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    Online Training
    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    SourceForge
    When we first signed up, they pair you with a campaign manager who trained us on how to use the product properly. The product is simple so the training was only about 30 minutes and after that we understood all the features and how to make the most of it. Most of the work came with making a custom landing page and building a follow up process for our sales team.
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    Implementation Rating
    Atlassian
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    SourceForge
    We have used this service mainly to read explicit opinions that influenced the decision-making when implementing new software for my company
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atlassian
    For the features we were looking at, Bitbucket, GitHub and GitLab were all at par and were in a similar price range. We found that GitHub was the most full featured should we need to scale very quickly. GitLab was at par with GitHub for our future needs, but GitHub was a more familiar tool compared to GitLab. Bitbucket won out because of its close integration with Jira and being in the Atlassian family. It was also cheaper than GitHub. As we started with Jira, Bitbucket addition became a natural next step for us. We really liked Bitbucket and stayed with it but we do know we have great options in the form of GitHub and GitLab should we need to scale fast.
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    SourceForge
    G2 has a larger commitment time upfront and for a more expensive rate, which wasn't the best option for our team as we were just exploring the resources that existed out there at the time. We preferred Sourceforge as well due to its subscription service, making it easier to commit from the start.
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    Scalability
    Atlassian
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    SourceForge
    SourceForge has been plenty scalable for us. Our marketing department is able to edit listings and our executives can also log in to the platform if need be for leads and reporting information. SourceForge offers multiple user access and role permissions, so it's pretty scalable and easy to use for our entire team.
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    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • It's allowed for a lot of automation in terms of development workflows. It lets us pursue CI/CD approaches and get releases out faster
    • It has let us get our infrastructure configuration into VCS, which further improves our automation abilities.
    • It has aided in keeping track of changes, and allows us to keep workflows organized so we can track the status of development
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    SourceForge
    • It allowed us to learn more about the features and functions of some software that we currently use.
    • It allowed me to improve my decision-making for the software we use in the project area.
    • It helped us to replace several programs that were used in our company. We made several replacements, for much more optimal alternatives.
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