The DevOps platform’s “land and expand” strategy has helped it grow quickly and reach into countries where competitors like GitHub and Atlassian have struggled to gain traction.
The largest cluster of Linux Foundation AI and Data Foundation project developers is located in China’s time zones. Baidu, Huawei, Tencent are represented on the foundation’s board, but Alibaba has forged a different path, with some of its data projects having been previously moved to the Apache Software Foundation.
The New Stack believes that although China’s adoption may be several months behind compared to its Western counterparts, differences also arose for two other reasons.