Microsoft Has Completed The Acquisition Of GitHub For $ 7.5 Billion

Indira Datta - Nov 01, 2018


Microsoft Has Completed The Acquisition Of GitHub For $ 7.5 Billion

On Friday, Microsoft announced that it had completed its GitHub purchase for $ 7.5 billion

On Friday, Microsoft announced that it had completed its GitHub purchase for $ 7.5 billion. Business Insider posted this in June this year.

Founder and CEO of Xamarin (belong to Microsoft) - Nat Friedman currently manages GitHub's operations. Scott Guthrie is the head of Microsoft's AI and the owner of the cloud will be the person to be notified straightforwardly by Friedman.

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Nat Friedman - Founder and CEO of Xamarin

Earlier this month, Nat Friedman revealed to Business Insider that GitHub is likely to become the basis for Microsoft's new management position in the environment where software resources are freely open. Here it can become a remarkable player.

In a blog post on Friday, Friedman said:

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In addition, Satya Nadella - Microsoft President is very excited and believes in the presence of GitHub in the Microsoft family.

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Satya Nadella - Microsoft President

Nadella informs Business Insider about this coordination:

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In addition, there are 31 million users using GitHub's platform and up to 3 million since June.

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