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Microsoft Holds Acquisition Talks with Github

posted by janrinok on Saturday June 02 2018, @02:14PM   
from the good-business-or-something-else dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/06/01/microsoft--github-acquisition-talks-resume.html

Microsoft held talks in the past few weeks to acquire software developer platform GitHub, Business Insider reports.

One person familiar with the discussions between the companies told CNBC that they had been considering a joint marketing partnership valued around $35 million, and that those discussions had progressed to a possible investment or outright acquisition. It is unclear whether talks are still ongoing, but this person said that GitHub's price for a full acquisition was more than Microsoft currently wanted to pay.

GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in its last funding round 2015, but the price tag for an acquisition could be $5 billion or more, based on a price that was floated last year.

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• Re:EEE Re:EEE (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Saturday June 02 2018, @05:51PM (4 children)

  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday June 02 2018, @05:51PM (#687763)

  Alternatives?

  I'd like a site like GitHub with a decent trac wiki attached to the account... who's good out there? I thought GitHub was... until this week.

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• Re:EEE (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @06:10PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @06:10PM (#687771)

  gitlab?

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• Re:EEE (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @03:12AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 03 2018, @03:12AM (#687905)

  Depending on your development model, Fossil SCM might be for you. It is a single binary with repos being a single sqlite database. If you don't mind a more cathedral model and a slightly higher entry-cost compared to Gitlab or Gitea, it will serve you well.

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• Re:EEE Re:EEE (Score: 3, Insightful) by TheRaven on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:59AM (1 child)

  by TheRaven (270) on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:59AM (#687988) Journal

  There are lots of GitHub alternatives. GitHub is probably one of the best, but the main value in GitHub is that everyone has a GitHub account. If you want to see lots of contributors, you host on GitHub because then most people who might file bugs or send patches already have an account on your issue tracker and can easily send you patches via pull requests.

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  • Re:EEE (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 03 2018, @02:16PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday June 03 2018, @02:16PM (#688019)

    Thanks, and that's really it, isn't it? Account maintenance.

    AC above mentioned Fossil SCM... I've set up ~6 large-ish trac sites over the past ~12 years, early days on svn, lately on git, and trac has never disappointed in terms of ease of setup, maintenance and features, but... account maintenance has always been a headache - one place integrated it with Active Directory, but for some reason keeping that working was even worse than manually maintaining a passwd file for ~12 users.

    Where I am now I have 2 trac sites, one that's providing long term maintenance support for a project from 2013, and another that got subsumed by the TFS/VSTS beast. With 20+ developers, we're paying ~3% M$ tax for our licenses, and I surely don't see $100K of value in VSTS compared to trac, but 40% of them have drunk the MS kool-aid hard, so here we are.

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