Comment by zackya89
8 years ago
You dont pay 2 Billion, and leave it untouched, they see an earnings potential in the company given the right management and shareholders expect ROI that is higher then the average market return
8 years ago
You dont pay 2 Billion, and leave it untouched, they see an earnings potential in the company given the right management and shareholders expect ROI that is higher then the average market return
Thanks for this comment.
Most of the discussio here is just centered around Microsofts goodwill and trustworthiness, mostly ignoring that MS wouldn't make this investment without a solid plan and path to profitability.
That doesn't have to be bad per se, I guess there are a lot of options like integrating Github well with Azure and providing alternatives to AWS CodeCommit / pipelines, ...
Microsoft can monetize the data in a way that github themselves couldn’t. It can also afford to lose money for strategic reasons.
The earnings are getting people who already have code in GitHub to also buy into Visual Studio App Center, Azure, all other Microsoft value-adds. By not leaving GitHub untouched otherwise reduces the chances of spooking the current patrons of GitHub. Makes nothing but sense to me.