Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by SanDimasFootbal on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:26PM
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Atlassian is very much a Software Company.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by gurkendoktor on Saturday June 02, 2018 @05:22AM
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I'm only a relatively casual user, but doesn't Atlassian mostly buy and then manage existing software products? They didn't develop Trello, HipChat, Bitbucket etc.
Every time I run into an issue with Atlassian software, I find a JIRA ticket from 7 years ago. If they have a capable dev team, it's probably working on projects off my radar?
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by tomkin on Saturday June 02, 2018 @11:31PM
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Please. There was no reason to bring up JIRA. Uncalled for by any sane man's standards.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by b34r on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:28PM
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I wouldn’t exactly call them the gold standard of software. JIRA is a holy mess and well... many of us are still stuck with HipChat
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by SanDimasFootbal on Saturday June 02, 2018 @01:55AM
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Who is the gold standard?
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by b34r on Sunday June 03, 2018 @01:02AM
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37 Signals is well loved.
A lot of people would say Google these days... now that they're starting to move beyond Material Design 1.0 a lot of their products are becoming more visually mature and unique, along with their substantial investment in machine learning to make their software more personalized, etc.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by sharcerer on Saturday June 02, 2018 @12:12AM
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How has Kaggle fared under Google? Just asking. Also, ms has been focusing on open source quite a bit. Largest contributor on Github. Makes sense. It'll also send a message to the tech community. Mostly Google hogs the limelight for open source stuff.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by hedora on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:57PM
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Most of the big software firms also make hardware these days (unless they are selling open source or managed services).
Examples include Apple, most of the enterprise hardware space, IoT/wearables, *aaS, the top 10-100ish cloud vendors, etc.
Even Microsoft is a hardware company now.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by coldseattle on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:53PM
(#17211882)
Adobe.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by erk__ on Saturday June 02, 2018 @08:26AM
(#17214254)
And another big one is Autodesk
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by hedora on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:51PM
(#17212369)
Ignoring Azure, all the major MS products I can think of are at least partially ad supported (even when they release something that doesn’t serve ads, it’s a safe bet that it gathers data for better targeting...)
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by earenndil on Friday June 01, 2018 @11:03PM
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Office is ad-supported? vscode and typescript are ad-supported? MSSQL is ad-supported?
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by berbec on Saturday June 02, 2018 @12:10AM
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Hell, Windows is ad-supported now. Ever updated and get your free "gift" of Bubble Witch Saga 2: Electric Boogalo? I would pay double for an enterprise version of Win10 without that crap.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by earenndil on Saturday June 02, 2018 @04:25AM
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Look up windows LTSB. Don't remember if it gets rid of ads, but you don't have automatic updates every other hour.
Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
by manigandham on Saturday June 02, 2018 @05:43AM
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They do have an enterprise version of Windows 10...
Microsoft is more and more cloud and services, but they still have a developer mentality and they have done some good stuff with open source lately.
If someone is going to buy Github, Microsoft is probably the most friendly to developers. Unless Google or Facebook wants to go full altruist and buy for the credibility.