$7.5bn for GitHub? Wow. I wouldn't describe it as that much of a value add considering all the companies providing Git.
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Replying to @timalmond
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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Replying to @anomalyuk
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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Replying to @timalmond @anomalyuk
It’s the popularity of the distribution platform and the breadth of the repository that gives it value I think.
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Replying to @thisispongo @anomalyuk
and Azure is more than just Windows applications. You can run Linux, Java, PHP, all sorts on there. And this is Microsoft's future. Not selling Windows server licenses, but selling cloud services.
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Oh, agreed. That pivot is more than half complete now.
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