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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GitHub

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AGitHub is a platform that hosts public and private code and provides software development and collaboration tools. Features include version control, issue tracking, code review, team management, syntax highlighting, etc. Personal plans ($0-50), Organizational plans ($0-200), and Enterprise plans are available.

    $4

    per month per user

    IBM Cloud Foundry

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Foundry is an IBM version of the open-source platform designed for building, testing, deploying, and scaling applications. Enterprises can run Cloud Foundry in a public isolated environment, while natively integrating with other IBM Cloud services, such as AI, Blockchain, and IoT.

    $0.07

    Per GBH

    Pricing
    GitHubIBM Cloud Foundry
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $40
    per year per user
    Enterprise
    $210
    per year per user
    Community Runtimes
    $0.07
    Per GBH
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitHubIBM Cloud Foundry
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GitHubIBM Cloud Foundry
    Considered Both Products
    GitHub
    No answer on this topic
    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    47 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    46 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    GitHubIBM Cloud Foundry
    Version Control Software Features
    Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of GitHub and IBM Cloud Foundry
    Feature
    GitHub
    9.4
    10 Ratings
    7% above category average
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    -
    Ratings
    Branching and Merging9.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version History9.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version Control Collaboration Tools9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pull Requests9.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review Tools8.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Access Control9.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Testing Integration8.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue Tracking Integration8.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branch Protection9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of GitHub and IBM Cloud Foundry
    Feature
    GitHub
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    7.6
    24 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.524 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.512 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings7.523 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.722 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings6.49 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings4.711 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings7.520 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    Vercel
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Perforce P4
    Score7.5 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GitHubIBM Cloud Foundry
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (131 ratings)
    8.5
    (32 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GitHubIBM Cloud Foundry
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GitHub
    GitHub is an easy to go tool when it comes to Version Controlling, CI/CD workflows, Integration with third party softwares. It's effective for any level of CI/CD implementation you would like to. Also the the cost of product is also very competitive and affordable. As of now GitHub lacks capabilities when it comes to detailed project management in comparison to tools like Jira, but overall its value for money.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    As it is an open-source platform as a service, it is very easy to operate, scale, and deploy regardless of what programming language and framework it's written in. However, it could be improved in terms of scalability. There should be proper documentation for easier and clearer understanding to make the process smooth.
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    Pros
    GitHub
    • Version control: GitHub provides a powerful and flexible Git-based version control system that allows teams to track changes to their code over time, collaborate on code with others, and maintain a history of their work.
    • Code review: GitHub's pull request system enables teams to review code changes, discuss suggestions and merge changes in a central location. This makes it easier to catch bugs and ensure that code quality remains high.
    • Collaboration: GitHub provides a variety of collaboration tools to help teams work together effectively, including issue tracking, project management, and wikis.
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    IBM
    • Simplicity - the command line tool provided can get you up and running within minutes.
    • Resourceful - IBM Cloud Foundry is built on top of the open source Cloud Foundry technology, so any resources you find online about Cloud Foundry generally can be applied.
    • Feature rich - provides all the necessary features for a cloud based platform, such as auto-scaling, 0 downtime deployment.
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    Cons
    GitHub
    • Not an easy tool for beginners. Prior command-line experience is expected to get started with GitHub efficiently.
    • Unlike other source control platforms GitHub is a little confusing. With no proper GUI tool its hard to understand the source code version/history.
    • Working with larger files can be tricky. For file sizes above 100MB, GitHub expects the developer to use different commands (lfs).
    • While using the web version of GitHub, it has some restrictions on the number of files that can be uploaded at once. Recommended action is to use the command-line utility to add and push files into the repository.
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    IBM
    • Need: VISUALIZATION CAPABILITIES! Particularly with the Conversation Service.
    • Need: Annotation capabilities for dialog nodes in Conversation Service.
    • Need: Search/querying capabilities in Conversation Service
    • Need: Clearer documentation of the S2T service. I had to use a third party website for an understanding of how to use this.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GitHub
    GitHub's ease of use and continued investment into the Developer Experience have made it the de facto tool for our engineers to manage software changes. With new features that continue to come out, we have been able to consolidate several other SaaS solutions and reduce the number of tools required for each engineer to perform their job responsibilities.
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    GitHub
    GitHub is a clean and modern interface. The underlying integrations make it smooth to couple tasks, projects, pull requests and other business functions together. The insights and reporting is really strong and is getting better with every release. GitHub's PR tooling is strong for being web based, i do believe a better code editor would rival having to pull merge conflicts into local IDE.
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    GitHub
    There are a ton of resources and tutorials for GitHub online. The sheer number of people who use GitHub ensures that someone has the exact answer you are looking for. The docs on GitHub itself are very thorough as well. You will often find an official doc along with the hundreds of independent tutorials that answers your question, which is unusual for most online services.
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    GitHub
    While I don't have very much experience with these 2 solutions, they're two of the most popular alternatives to GitHub. Bitbucket is from Atlassian, which may make sense for a team that is already using other Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence, and Trello, as their integration will likely be much tighter. Gitlab on the other hand has a reputation as a very capable GitHub replacement with some features that are not available on GitHub like firewall tools.
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    IBM
    CF is what we initially went with to establish a development pipeline and start our cloud journey, now we are expanding this and although we are now pulling in many other tools and functions around CF, it is not being replaced. It stands out as having a key place working ‘with’ git, Kubernetes, IBM cloud etc, not against or segregated from it.
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    Return on Investment
    GitHub
    • Team collaboration significantly improved as everything is clearly logged and maintained.
    • Maintaining a good overview of items will be delivered wrt the roadmap for example.
    • Knowledge management and tracking. Over time a lot of tickets, issues and comments are logged. GitHub is a great asset to go back and review why x was y.
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    IBM
    • IBM Bluemix is mainly a foundation enabler at this stage, although our business plan does look promising.
    • The low cost of development on Bluemix for a start-up like us is so helpful......we had no spare cash for this project besides what we could save or borrow at first, and that wasn't much. We are still trying to attract venture capital to cover the main Cordova Coding effort plus the launch "Cash Burn".
    • Features like push notifications, mobile-back end, and world-beating security help us to sell our SaaS products/services.
    • The pure (usually!) functionality of IBM products and services is very rewarding to work with.They are so insightful and thoughtful, to say naught of clever!
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