The Great Opening of Microsoft Corp. continued on Monday with the announced acquisition of Github, the open-source software development community. Said Mr. Hicks: “If GitHub no longer works for them, they’ll simply adopt the next (platform) that does.”Microsoft, Github deal draws quick reaction by some developers. Within a single hour Monday, after news of Microsoft’s deal for code repository Github, rival GitLab grew by 13,000 new projects, according to a real-time tracker monitored by Motherboard. Toshiba Corp., which was the first in the world to commercialize laptop computers in 1985, is selling the business to Sharp Corp., the Journal’s Takashi Mochizuki reports. The Morning Download cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 05, 2018 12:40 UTC