Microsoft acquires GitHub

[Arthur]

I guess we'll know more details in the morning.

 

Source: Bloomberg

 

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire GitHub Inc., the code repository company popular with many software developers, and could announce the deal as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.

 

GitHub preferred selling the company to going public and chose Microsoft partially because it was impressed by Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. Terms of the agreement weren’t known on Sunday. GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in 2015.

 

The acquisition provides a way forward for San Francisco-based GitHub, which has been trying for nine months to find a new CEO and has yet to make a profit from its popular service that allows coders to share and collaborate on their work. It also helps Microsoft, which is increasingly relying on open-source software, to add programming tools and tie up with a company that has become a key part of the way Microsoft writes its own software.

 

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GitHub hosts 27 million software developers working on 80 million repositories of code. Microsoft, once opposed to that kind of open-source software development, is now one if the biggest contributors to GitHub. As Nadella increasingly moves the company away from complete dependence on the Windows operating system to more in-house development on Linux, the company needs new ways to connect with the broader developer community.

[pete]

Spotted the speculation and hoped it wouldn't happen.

[Arthur]

$7.5 billion!!!

 

https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/

[matt40k]

Spotted the speculation and hoped it wouldn't happen.

Umm... Why?

[Ksavage413]

NSA backdoor in 3...2...1...

 

/jk

 

I'll be interested to see where this goes, especially since competitors like Apple and Amazon use GitHub.

[matt40k]

They'll move the infrastructure over to Azure. That's about it. Nothing will really change especially for end-users - other then you can order GitHub Enterprise via your Microsoft agreement