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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by fipple on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:06PM (#18851214)
Microsoft isn't even trying to directly make money off GitHub Enterprise. What they're doing is plugging GitHub into a giant ecosystem of Azure-related services that they sell to large corporations for millions of dollars per year per customer. They could give away GitHub for free entirely, and might, if there's a one-click "deploy to Azure" and similar functionality that brings people into the Microsoft shop.
Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by scarface74 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:53AM (#18853551)
There is already a one click deploy to Azure from Github, it was there before the acquisition via the Azure Devops aka Visual Studio Team Service website.
Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:45PM (#18852656)
Yep, exactly, and the lock-in on Azure is much better. It’s near trivial to switch between hosted Git providers.

Integrations/hooks/CI add some stickyness which is probably why places like Gitlab focus on offering CI to be more than simply “git in the cloud.”