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 and was the last valuation of the market value of the popular code repository.
This site is used mainly
by programmers and IT professionals around the world. The service is also popular among Hotshot employees such as HP, IBM, Disney, Evernote, Apple, Amazon, Cisco, Oracle, Mastercard and many more.
GitHub is the biggest competitor to Codeplex, which was abandoned last December. Since then, Microsoft employees have been major contributors to the warehouse, with more than 1,000 employees.
"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
The company is a hub for the open source world, hosting 80 million cipher repositories on the site as of March 2018. In contrast, Microsoft at one time opposed the development of open-source software, describing CEO Linux as cancer.