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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Strikes Deal To Acquire Github

By:
Neha Gupta
Updated: Jun 4, 2018, 09:26 UTC

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is reportedly planning to acquire popular coding platform GitHub following talks of an acquisition deal between the executives of the two firms.

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Sources familiar with the matter revealed that Microsoft and GitHub have been holding acquisition talks and that the deal is courtesy of the internet giant’s CEO, Satya Nadella. GitHub executives claim that they were impressed by the support and encouragement he has offered to coders and their initiatives ever since he took over the helm at Microsoft in 2014.

Nadella has been very vocal about the positive impact that developers make on the society through coding and this is a point that he stressed in 2017 during the Build conference. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub is a strategic move that aligns with the company’s pursuit of securing more developers. Its acquisition would allow it to access roughly 27 million developers. However, it seems some developers are not excited about the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft.

Microsoft has not made any official announcement although sources familiar with the dealings claim that the company will most likely make the announcement this week. The financial terms have not been announced although they will most likely be publicized when the software and tech giant announces the deal.

What does the acquisition mean for developers and the rest of the world?

Nadella’s mission has been to invest more in open-source technologies. Microsoft has already put Visual Studio Code, PowerShell and the JavaScript engine of Microsoft Edge on the open-source domain. The firm has also teamed up with acquired Xamarin for mobile app development and Canonical to make Ubuntu available on Windows 10.

Microsoft has also been leveraging the open source Git version control system to facilitate further development of Windows along with the acquisition of the SQL Server to Linux. Developers have over time become more interested in the company’s Visual Studio Code. The latter allows developers to create, as well as debug cloud and web applications.

The acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft will thus allow it to go deeper as far as providing open source software. It also means the company is working on further integration between its developer tools and GitHub. Microsoft announced during the Build conference in May that it will continue working closely with GitHub so as to integrate it into the Microsoft App center for developers.

The partnership should provide more opportunities and also more resources to developers which will allow them to push their creativity and achieve more. It will also allow developers to expand their scope of influence on the society. It also means more open source software will be available in the market although these are just some of the many benefits that are expected to come from the GitHub acquisition.

Developers should expect to get a better picture of Microsoft’s plan with the acquisition of GitHub once the deal is announced. Microsoft has so far not released any comments pertaining to the matter although there is a lot of excitement pertaining to the deal.

About the Author

Neha Gupta has been in the financial space for over six years now. She is a veteran in article writing, which is depicted in her numerous pieces published in other well-known websites.

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