Microsoft Set to Purchase World’s Largest Source Code Platform — GitHub!
Deal could be announced on Monday! Recent report from Bloomberg is claiming that the software giant ‘Microsoft’ has agreed to purchase GitHub, and the deal could be announced on Monday. GitHub, last valued at $2 Billion in 2015, is a vast code repository that became popular with companies and individual developers hosting their documentation, code, and projects. After GitHub founder Chris Wanstrath announced his intentions to step down, GitHub had been looking for new CEO since last 9 months. Later, the coding startup was impressed by the active approach from Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s current CEO, since he took role in 2014. Microsoft Loves Open-Source Now… Microsoft has been investing rapidly in Open-Source Technologies ever since Satya Nadella became CEO. In fact, Microsoft has already open-sourced Visual Studio Code , Microsoft Edge JavaScript Engine , and PowerShell . Furthermore, Microsoft has also acquired Xamarin to assist cross-platform