Microsoft has finally finaliz現電ed the acquisition of GitHub.
On the evening of June 4, Microsof白光t officially announced its plan to pu匠時rchase GitHub, a softw朋愛are code hosting website, with $7.5 錯筆billion in stock. The d音飛eal is expected to be completed b慢城y the end of this year.
GitHub was founded in靜很 April 2008, and it 話的has been just 10 years since then. In懂做 2015, GitHub was valued at 近門$2 billion. In just thre務了e years, GitHub's market value has路頻 nearly quadrupled, making it t子藍he most popular social programmi白爸ng and code hosting platform.靜熱
According to statistic窗錯s, as of March this year, G機懂itHub has 28 million high公西-frequency users, an白這d has hosted 80 million source code rep購民ositories for Java, Py子事thon and C + +. Public or家黑ganizations such as NASA and lar山微ge technology companies 吃從such as Google, apple and 你匠Amazon also have businesses on Git美長Hub.
As the majority of GitHub users ar船遠e white men (it is sa廠見id that the proportion is as high as 97年事%), so it is nicknamed by Chinese 麗少programmers as "the world's larg我遠est gay dating website".
Chris wanstrath, CEO of GitHub, said th舊新e community platform was profitable as 計慢early as 2011. At present, Git金音Hub has three profit models: Code h船廠osting service, data preci理微pitation and cloud storage, a爸民nd enterprise headhu冷知nter recruitment community.
According to CNBC last year看湖, GitHub expects annual r問見evenue of more than $200 million,動算 of which more than $110 million 我報comes from b-end enterprise servi又視ces revenue.
According to people familiar with t線森he matter, such a profitable車相 company did not choose to go publ愛厭ic, but surrendered to Microsoft, i年用n part because of its trust用習 in Microsoft's ability and de頻坐termination to attach im亮我portance to the developer bu聽東siness.
Interestingly, Microsoft 票文used to be a strong opponent of op水弟en source software, but又道 after NADELLA became Microsoft's 費新CEO, Microsoft gradually became 自校one of the most active promoters in t紅影he open source community. Sin鄉了ce 2014, Microsoft has launch校女ed hundreds of open source project媽火s since. Net, the basic open-source p歌東rogramming tool of Microsof船嗎t. In 2016, Microsoft also su間國rpassed Facebook and Google t鐵兒o reach the top of GitHub's contributi體自on list.
As for the significance of 人水Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub, N爸志ADELLA commented on twitter that 們體"Microsoft + GitHub = enabling devel姐師opers". According to the speculation我服 of industry insiders, from the perspec歌信tive of Microsoft's mergin司中g part of GitHub revenue in地近to the Intelligent Clo書器ud business segment, it is t頻跳o implement the "Ai + cloud" st錯裡rategy, so as to encourage developers t飛志o develop applications for M畫話icrosoft's multi platforms, includin友術g the cloud platform 用得azure cloud.
From left to right are Chris wanstrat們技h, co-founder of GitHub, S制河atya NADELLA, CEO of Microsoft, and NAT會能 Friedman, new CEO o美計f GitHub
Microsoft said that GitHub will 空外maintain its original坐微 style in the future, focusing on 高動developers and maintaining i還理ndependent operation.內南
After the acquisition, N會跳AT Friedman, vice president of Micr國吧osoft, will be the chief exec錯紅utive officer of GitHu問放b, and Chris wanstrath, co-founder and低男 former CEO of GitHub, will become 秒紅a technical researcher of Microsoft, re著鄉port to executive vice president Sco文長tt Guthrie and carry out strategic so要樹ftware development p遠從lan.
For a long time, due to the lessons lea為木rned from Nokia, Hotmail, Sky公紅pe, etc., people hold a mocking and窗黑 questioning attitude t火路owards those big acquisitions of Micros海朋oft. So what's the future of GitHub?村市 Maybe only time will tell. 我都
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