Earlier this year Microsoft Corporation, the American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington announced that it’s acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion. On Friday Microsoft confirmed the deal is completed.
GitHub is a leading software development platform which brings more than 31 million developers to create, collaborate, share and build on each other’s work.
It’s official. @GitHub is now a part of the Microsoft family of companies. New GitHub CEO @NatFriedman shares his plans for a GitHub that’s open, developer-first, and better than ever: https://t.co/kzet3lErm2
— Microsoft (@Microsoft) October 26, 2018
Nat Friedman, former CEO of Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft in 2016), is taking over as GitHub’s CEO, Microsoft said in a statement on Friday.
He announced the completion of the deal in a blog post “Our vision is to serve every developer on the planet, by being the best place to build software. This is a dream opportunity for all of us at GitHub, and we couldn’t be more excited to roll up our sleeves and start this next chapter.”
He also said that GitHub would operate independently as a community, platform, and business.
So the developers will continue to use the programming languages, tools and operating systems of their choice for their projects and will still be able to deploy their code to any operating system, any Cloud and any device.
Though there has been some opposition to Microsoft’s GitHub deal, most developers are waiting to watch how Microsoft is going to handle GitHub.
Apple, Amazon, Google, and many other big tech companies use GitHub.
Friedman had previously promised that “We are not buying GitHub to turn it into Microsoft.”
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft tweeted “I’m thrilled to welcome GitHub to Microsoft. Together, we will continue to advance GitHub as a platform loved by developers and trusted by organizations.”
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