$7.5bn for GitHub? Wow. I wouldn't describe it as that much of a value add considering all the companies providing Git.
Github owns enormous amounts of data on a large proportion of the world's programmers, and a majority of the best ones. Who they know, what they work on, when they are busiest. LinkedIn on steroids.
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I'm not sure that's really a link. I've worked with lots of great developers with nothing on GitHub.
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It’s the popularity of the distribution platform and the breadth of the repository that gives it value I think.
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My current thinking is that this is about channelling the Github user base towards Azure. If you use Microsoft's Visual Studio Online they have a really smooth build system that goes right from a push to running build and test and deploying to Azure.
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That makes sense. I still think the user information is the real value, but that could work too. Does GH has that much CI functionality built in now? If not, they can add it.
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It supports lots of things. I don't know how well. I use VSO personally, and that's because it's a one-stop shop: tasks, code, build and easy deploy to Azure, and it all works really easily with Visual Studio. I think they'll give Github a lot more of that.
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