[dba-Tech] Microsoft now owns Github

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Dan:

If you are heavily into the open source and high-end developers trade, this is where they go. The developers, use the site as part of their resumes (it is essential if moving up the ladder), share new concepts (proof of concept) and get other developers interested in projects (a lot of collaborative projects are assembled there long before we, as the general population see them...there is hardly a new app or application created, in the last ten years that did not first start there).

For any programming company, Github is gold. This is where company's get their unicorn's (super developers) and research solutions to tough development problems. There is always an answer and the personal to build it, somewhere in the world.

Microsoft would not be where it is today, would not be embracing Linux and would not have the top line staff it has if not for Github.

Today, virtually every new concept or development advancements, in the computing industry, has it beginning in Github.
 
Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Waters" <df.waters at outlook.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 9:20:07 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Microsoft now owns Github

Where are these project migrations going?

PS - I don't use GitHub so I'm just not very familiar with this whole subject.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
Sent: June 5, 2018 11:01
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Microsoft now owns Github

On 6/5/2018 0:09, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> It is official, Microsoft now owns Github:
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/technology/microsoft-github-cloud-computing.html
> https://nyti.ms/2kPL1cU
>
> In the meantime, Gitlab has had their servers maxed out at over 50 to 100 thousand project migrations an hour, since the announcement. I guess this is what "panic" looks like. It is not that Microsoft cannot be trusted,

You're kidding, right?

> it is just that developers don't trust them. Even friends at Microsoft have been moving... ;-)
>
> I personally am not concerned but the last such similar developer site MS had, collapsed due to lack of interest. Maybe the new Github will be a profit making site and that will guarantee yet another postmortem. Of course, Microsoft could take a hands-off approach but only time will tell.
>
> Any comments from the developers, here?

Best hope might be that someone will do for GitHub what MariaDB did for 
MySQL---make a credible, trustable fork.

PB

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