I see this as a straightforward play, simply put, I think (to summarize, perhaps a little to broadly) - They want to sell Azure Services - Most (if not all) N

I see this as a straightforward play, simply put, I think (to summarize, perhaps a little to broadly) - They want to sell Azure Services - Most (if not all) NPM packages already live on github - NPM has a business revolving around package management, including private npm instances and increasingly around node/package security - This being primarily a business that will sell to has-money businesses (e.g., medium to large businesses, Fortune 500 corporations etc) So, given all of the above, it makes sense to have a vertical selling into one of the fastest growing package management ecosystems where you can be the "full stack" provider of developer/enterprise tools. I don't think its anything beyond this, personally. I expect to see a lot of pushes to integrate with Azure Pipelines, cloud deployment etc. centered around this. I wonder if they'll buy Passenger[0] next, its a popular (in my experience) to deploy nodejs applications. [0]https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/ https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/