Microsoft announces its acquisition of GITHUB's largest developer site for $ 7.5 billion

in information •  6 years ago 

Microsoft has confirmed that it will acquire the largest developer site on the popular GitHub site for $ 7.5 billion.


The value announced by Microsoft is still higher than speculation in recent days.

Microsoft was expected to pay $ 5 billion for the service in 2015,

   But it was estimated at $ 2 billion

  This was the last valuation of the market value of the popular code repository.

This site is mainly used

  By programmers and IT professionals around the world.

  The service is also very popular among corporate staff

  Hotshot like

  HP and

  IBM and

  Disney

  And Evernote

  And Apple

And Amazon

And Cisco

And Oracle

And Mastercard

  And many more.

GitHub is the largest competitor of Codeplex

  Which was abandoned last December

  Since then Microsoft employees have become major contributors to the warehouse

They are more than one thousand employees in the company.

"Microsoft is the first developer, and by consolidating its efforts with Geithp, we are strengthening our commitment to developers' freedom, openness and innovation," said Sathia Nadla, chief executive of Microsoft, in a press release. "We recognize the responsibility of our community with this agreement and will do our utmost To enable each developer to build, innovate and solve the most pressing challenges in the world. However, this decision has raised fear among some developers in the world and many are thinking of switching to competing services such as BitBucket or GitLab. The concern is quite apparent despite the company's lack of CEO and banks However, Github enjoys a distinct position in the ecosystem for software development and plays a crucial role

There is no doubt that this company is the focus of the world of open source,

Where it hosted 80 million cipher stores on site as of March 2018 and in return

Microsoft at one time opposed the development of open source software, so that Linux CEO described it as cancer.

By Imre Messinaisa

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$ 7.5 billion.

yes 7.5 billion