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I had to read the title multiples times to truly believe what I was reading. « Microsoft is Acquiring Spectrum through GitHub ». Regardless of what the title

by asien 8y ago

I had to read the title multiples times to truly believe what I was reading. « Microsoft is Acquiring Spectrum through GitHub ». Regardless of what the title says this is what my brain keeps reading. At first it seems like a nonsense, but after all it makes perfect sense. Microsoft must repay the inversement in GitHub, it was an expensive acquisition. Best way to do this ? Probably to bundle GitHub Enterprise with Spectrum. It makes sense as GitLab have Gitter but GitHub has nothing to manage communities.

brobdingnagians 8y ago
I wonder if there is any tool to help correlate sequences of events in the news like this. So much of understanding this is understanding the Microsoft acquisition of Spectrum. It feels like you have to have a constant memorized list of what happened to everyone in at least the last 5 years to understand why something happened, and then try to correlate it to other peoples' strategies. Would be nice to have a little timeline of events related to each "entity" so that you could see all the connections.
djsumdog 8y ago
I would make more sense than trying to package Teams into Github somehow .. I mean they don't want to lose more people. I did find it interesting it's marketed as Github doing this rather than MS. I think MS is trying to distance their influence over Github.
wyldfire 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying, I initially skimmed the page and assumed it was merely open sourcing their implementation.
tracker1 8y ago
From the release it looks like all the features of Spectrum are now free. It seems to me, the goal was to integrate slack-like features in the box for GitHub proper, and for enterprise. I would theorize that GitHub enterprise itself may be deprecated with a migration path to "Azure DevOps" and "TFS" for hosted/internal source control respectively, with potentially better integration with public Github over time. It may be interesting to see Spectrum integrated with MS Teams for those orgs that have internal teams, but need to interact externally, which is a story seriously lacking in Teams currently.

by asien 8y ago

brobdingnagians 8y ago

I wonder if there is any tool to help correlate sequences of events in the news like this. So much of understanding this is understanding the Microsoft acquisition of Spectrum. It feels like you have to have a constant memorized list of what happened to everyone in at least the last 5 years to understand why something happened, and then try to correlate it to other peoples' strategies. Would be nice to have a little timeline of events related to each "entity" so that you could see all the connections.

djsumdog 8y ago

I would make more sense than trying to package Teams into Github somehow .. I mean they don't want to lose more people. I did find it interesting it's marketed as Github doing this rather than MS. I think MS is trying to distance their influence over Github.

wyldfire 8y ago

Thanks for clarifying, I initially skimmed the page and assumed it was merely open sourcing their implementation.

tracker1 8y ago

From the release it looks like all the features of Spectrum are now free. It seems to me, the goal was to integrate slack-like features in the box for GitHub proper, and for enterprise. I would theorize that GitHub enterprise itself may be deprecated with a migration path to "Azure DevOps" and "TFS" for hosted/internal source control respectively, with potentially better integration with public Github over time. It may be interesting to see Spectrum integrated with MS Teams for those orgs that have internal teams, but need to interact externally, which is a story seriously lacking in Teams currently.