INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
After a week of rumors, Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired GitHub, the popular Git-based code sharing and collaboration
The price of the acquisition was $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock
technical fellow and work on strategic software initiatives
Wanstrath had retaken his CEO role after his co-founder Tom Preston-Werner resigned following a harassment investigation in 2014.The fact
it is working with LinkedIn
million code repositories, making it the largest host of source code globally and a cornerstone of how many in the tech world build
paid accounts, which allows for private repositories and a number of other features that enterprises need, with pricing ranging from $7 per
user per month to $21/user/month
Those building public and open source projects can use it for free.While numerous large enterprises use GitHub as their code sharing service
be the go-to platform for every developer, and every developer need, no matter the platform.Microsoft has long embraced the Git protocol and
Friday, which noted not only that the deal had already closed, but that open source software maintainers were already eyeing up alternatives
and looking potentially to abandon GitHub in the wake of the deal
migrating.While GitHub is home to more than just open source software, if such a migration came to pass, it would be a very bad look both
And, it would a particularly ironic turn, given the very origins of Git: the versioning control system was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005
when he was working on development of the Linux kernel, in part as a response to a previous system, BitKeeper, changing its terms away from
Linux Foundation and regularly backs a number of open source projects
business strategy, which could see the company build stronger bridges between GitHub and Azure, its cloud hosting service, and its wide
array of software and collaboration products
Microsoft is no stranger to ingesting huge companies
One of them, LinkedIn, might be another area where Microsoft might explore synergies, specifically around areas like recruitment and online
