Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by tootie on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:22PM (#17224334)

They will operate them as a loss leader to Azure.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by stubish on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:53AM (#17225011)

This. They own where the code is lands, and will try to build the best, most streamlined CI system straight to profitable Azure deployments. Probably cheapest too, if they update agreements to get a slice of the deployment pie if people do want to deploy to AWS or GCE.

'Extinguish' might be right, but Amazon is the target here and holding off Google in second place. Other cloud providers will have to race to the bottom if they are not already there.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by wilsonnb on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:03AM (#17226944)

Last I checked, AWS is in first place by a wide margin, followed by Azure and then IBM in third. Google is trailing all of them at the moment.

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