INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Microsoft today announced its plans to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock
Unsurprisingly, that sent a few shock waves through the developer community, which still often eyes Microsoft with considerable unease
During a conference call this morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, incoming GitHub CEO (and Xamarin founder) Nat Friedman and GitHub
call stressed was that GitHub will continue to operate as an independent company
aware of its reputation among many of the developers who call GitHub their home
GitHub will remain an open platform that any developer can plug into and extend, Microsoft promises
enterprise services and integrate them with its own sales and partner channels
taking over as CEO, GitHub will have a respected technologist at the helm
happy about the outcome when I talk to him), so I think this bodes quite well for GitHub
After joining Microsoft, Friedman ran the developer services team at the company
he wanted to step down and take a more active product role
and noted that he expected the developer community to be skeptical of the mashup of these two companies
follow through on the promises it made today.As for the product itself, Friedman noted that everything GitHub does should be about making a
GitHub is an open platform
So we have the ability for anyone to plug their cloud services into GitHub, and make it easier for you to go from code to cloud
And it extends beyond the cloud as well
code to mobile, code to edge device, code to IoT
ecosystem.Nadella, who is surely aware of this, addressed this directly today
developer-centric company and that is it already the most active organization on GitHub
andsomeofourmostvibrantdevelopertoolsandframeworksareopen-sourcedwhenitcomestoourcommitmenttoallsourcejudges,
