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Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire GitHub Inc., the code repository
company popular with many software developers, and could announce the deal as
soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
GitHub preferred selling the company to going public and chose Microsoft
partially because it was impressed by Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella,
said one of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private
information. Terms of the agreement weren’t known on Sunday. GitHub was last
valued at $2 billion in 2015.
The acquisition provides a way forward for San Francisco-based GitHub, which
has been trying for nine months to find a new CEO and has yet to make a
profit from its popular service that allows coders to share and collaborate
on their work. It also helps Microsoft, which is increasingly relying on
open-source software, to add programming tools and tie up with a company that
has become a key part of the way Microsoft writes its own software.
Frank Shaw, a spokesman for Microsoft, declined to comment. GitHub didn’t
return an email seeking request for comment.
GitHub is an essential tool for coders. Many corporations, including
Microsoft and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, use GitHub to store their corporate
code and to collaborate. It’s also a social network of sorts for developers.
While GitHub’s losses have been significant