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posted by chromas on Monday June 04 2018, @01:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the versionctlâ €-altâ €-del dept.

[Update 20180604 @ 14:00 UTC: Acquisition confirmed. Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion in stock. Coverage at Microsoft, Security Week, The Register, and The Verge. Also, see the Microsoft blog post. --martyb]

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently.

Time to move off GitHub?

Previously: Microsoft Holds Acquisition Talks with Github

An AC also submitted Bloomberg's article.


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 04 2018, @02:10PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @02:10PM (#688356) Journal

    Also pay attention to what Microsoft did to Hotmail when they acquired that.

    Move it from Unix to . . . . Windows NT 4!

    And it took four times as many systems to run. Wasn't stable. Etc.

    At least this time they can migrate GitHub to Windows 10 S. (I think that's what it's called . . . I wouldn't know.)

    GitHub's scaling problems will be over! And it will have stability! The kind of reliability you've come to expect from Microsoft products. [techcrunch.com]

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @02:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @02:27PM (#688370)

    But a windoze machine power button pusher costs 20% of what a unix admin does, so it is all good.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @03:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @03:09PM (#688397)

    "GitHub's scaling problems will be over! And it will have stability!"

    And all they'll have to do is figure out what to do with all the tumbleweeds rolling around.