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from the good-business-or-something-else dept.
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.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Saturday June 02 2018, @06:31PM
Atlassian's BitBucket.org [bitbucket.org] is a solid alternative to GitHub, with similar features. Pretty source-browsing in-browser, bug-tracker, wiki. I forget if they have project-planning or code-review support. They're cheaper than GitHub, and they offer private repos for free. (Which makes sense - they're desperate to compete with GitHub.) They have fancy features reserved for those who pay enough.
They don't have GitHub's community though. It seems to be one of those winner-takes-all things.
An example public repo on BitBucket is the old SCons repo. [bitbucket.org] (Ironically they've moved to GitHub.)