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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:The good news (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Sunday June 03 2018, @06:03PM

  by TheRaven (270) on Sunday June 03 2018, @06:03PM (#688072) Journal

  There is only one feature that GitHub has that is hard to replicate: the likelihood that all of your potential collaborators already have a GitHub account. I moved a couple of projects to GitHub a few years ago. Now I get issues opened (from people who will actually provide feedback and help you track down a problem) and pull requests opened. I've used several other code hosting platforms, but GitHub is the only one where I've had contributions from people who weren't already members of a community that I was involved with.

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