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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: 4, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Saturday June 02 2018, @06:57PM
If you've got a box that's running any flavor of Linux, it's about 2 minutes to get a git server working, and maybe 30 to think through a few security issues you'd want to nail down before opening a hole in your firewall to let the internet in to get at it.
All in all, I'd recommend a minimum of 2 hours dedicated research time on Google to get to know about the issues before setting up your own - I've set up an exposed git repo to work with some consultants overseas, neither of our corporate IT departments could manage to navigate their bureaucracy in any kind of timely fashion to expose a port to a company server so we could collaborate that way, so I punched a hole in the home firewall and exposed my laptop - we still mirror to the company repositories, but when we want to sync with each other we go through my laptop.
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