Github was founded in the year 2008, by Chris Wanstrath, P.J Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner, and Scott Chacon by Ruby on rails. Within the first year of being online, GitHub had accumulated over 46,000 public repositories. On 4th June 2018, Microsoft intends to acquire Github for the US $7.5 billion and closed the deal on October 26, 2018. And according to Microsoft GitHub will continue to operate independently as a community, platform, and business. After this Microsoft is a significant user of the software.