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A user must create an account in order to contribute content to the site, but public repositories can be browsed and downloaded by anyone. With a registered user account, users are able to discuss, manage, create repositories, submit contributions to others' repositories, and [[code review|review changes to code]].
'''Users can pay a subscription fee to keep to keep their code private.'''<ref name=":0" />
The software that runs GitHub was written using [[Ruby on Rails]] and [[Erlang (programming language)|Erlang]] by GitHub, Inc. developers Chris Wanstrath,<ref name="wanstrathinterview">{{cite web |url = http://doeswhat.com/2012/03/06/interview-with-chris-wanstrath-github/ |title = Interview with Chris Wanstrath |publisher = Doeswhat.com |date = 2012-03-06 |accessdate = 2013-02-26 }}</ref> PJ Hyett, and [[Tom Preston-Werner]].
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'''In the spring of 2017, GitHub Enterprise added on an option to store work on the major cloud services, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-enterprise-service-brings-in-half-its-200-million-in-sales-2017-10|title=GitHub, the 'Facebook for programmers,' has quietly built up an enterprise business that accounts for half its $200 million in sales|work=Business Insider|access-date=2017-12-11|language=en}}</ref>''' '''IBM's BlueMix cloud-platform was added in February, 2016.'''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/3036123/application-development/github-enterprise-is-coming-to-ibms-bluemix.html|title=GitHub Enterprise is coming to IBM's Bluemix|last=Noyes|first=Katherine|work=InfoWorld|access-date=2017-12-11|language=en}}</ref>
'''Git Hub Enterprise allows users to follow each other, rate each other’s work, receive updates for specific projects and communicate publicly or privately.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.itjungle.com/2017/05/17/arcad-github-prepare-paradigm-shift/|title=ARCAD And GitHub Prepare For A Paradigm Shift - IT Jungle|date=2017-05-17|work=IT Jungle|access-date=2017-12-11|language=en-US}}</ref>''' '''It also has private workspaces and 24/7 support.'''<ref name=":0" />
'''GitHub Enterprise added support for [[Jupyter]] in November 2016'''. '''It allows for annotations and discussions around specific lines of code and, card-based project-management software created directly from GitHub objects.'''<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/3140154/development-tools/github-enterprise-28-adds-new-workflow-options.html|title=GitHub Enterprise 2.8 adds new workflow options|last=Yegulalp|first=Serdar|work=InfoWorld|access-date=2017-12-11|language=en}}</ref>
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* '''Search commit messages in specific data fields, such as author, date, and message'''<ref name=":1" />
* '''Organization-wide projects''' <ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/02/github_opens_door_to_hosted_service_for_businesses/|title=You're mulling GitHub Enterprise. Not keen on on-prem hosting. You don't totally hate cloud...|access-date=2017-12-11|language=en}}</ref>
'''In November 2017, Github adopted the "Git Virtual File System" created by Microsoft for [[Windows]] development. The system makes it easier to run large projects with thousands of developers and a very large codebase. Microsoft and Github are further
'''Forty five percent of the 100 largest companies in the United States (by revenue) use GitHub Enterprise to build software.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/11/20/github-vulnerability-security-alerts/|title=GitHub starts alerting developers of security vulnerabilities in dependencies - Help Net Security|date=2017-11-20|work=Help Net Security|access-date=2017-12-11|language=en-US}}</ref> About $110 million of GitHub's annual revenue, based on a run rate in August 2017, came from GitHub Enterprise.'''<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/11/github-has-a-110-million-run-rate-from-business-products.html|title=GitHub has turned serious and now books more than $100m a year from businesses|last=Novet|first=Jordan|date=2017-10-11|work=CNBC|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref>
'''GitHub Business offers largely the same features as GitHub Enterprise but is hosted by GitHub. It also includes includes SAML single sign-on, and automated provisioning and deprovisioning.<ref name=":1" />'''
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=== Finance ===
GitHub.com was a [[Startup company|start-up business]], which in its first years provided enough revenue to be funded solely by its three founders and start taking on employees.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Michael |first1 = Carney |title = GitHub CEO explains why the company took so damn long to raise venture capital |url = http://pando.com/2013/06/20/github-ceo-explains-why-the-company-took-so-damn-long-to-raise-venture-capital/ |accessdate = 10 July 2014 |date = 20 June 2013 |publisher = PandoDaily }}</ref> In July 2012, four years after the company was founded, [[Andreessen Horowitz]] invested $100M in [[venture capital]].<ref name="hugeinvestment"/> In July 2015 GitHub raised another $250M of venture capital in a [[Series B|series B round]]. Investors were [[Sequoia Capital]], [[Andreessen Horowitz]], [[Thrive Capital]] and other venture capital funds.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/29/github-raises-250m-series-b-round-to-take-risks/ |title = GitHub Raises $250M Series B Round To Take Risks |last = Lardinois |first = Frederic |website = TechCrunch |access-date = 2016-07-04 }}</ref> As of August 2016, GitHub was making $140M in Annual Recurring Revenue.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-better-than-bloomberg-thinks-here-is-why-a4580b249044 |title = GitHub is making $140M in ARR |last = Plassnig |first = Moritz |website = Medium |access-date = 2016-12-19 }}</ref> '''GitHub reported annual revenue of about $200M based on its July 2017 annual run rate.'''<ref name=":2" /> '''About half the revenue comes from GitHub Enterprise and half from subscription fees to keep repositories private.'''<ref name=":0" />
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