GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

[Kagamin]

On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 20:00:45 UTC, Maksim Fomin wrote:
> Just as rough estimate: to support $7.5 bl valuation Microsoft 
> must turn -$30 ml. net loss company into business generating 
> around $750 ml. for many years. There is no way to get these 
> money from the market. Alternatively, the project can have 
> payoff if something is broken and Microsoft cash flows increase 
> by $750 ml. This is more likely...

MS aims for cloud market, and github is a strategic asset there, 
as long as it helps the cloud business, it doesn't matter that 
github in isolation is not profitable. After MS takes over webdev 
and monopolizes the cloud market they can pull effective 
management again, but it will be a long way to go, but webdev 
being webdev can make it a little shorter. They were already 
kicked out of mobile market, it was reasonably unexpected, but it 
doesn't look like they plan to fall for it again.