Gitlab is really gunning for it. Some awesome sounding upcoming features[1]:<p>1. Gitlab container registry<p>2. Gitlab deploy<p>3. Gitlab pipeline[2]<p>5. Automatically squash before merge<p>6. More expressive build matrix<p>Also shipping octotree as part of gitlab[3] - this was in response to a Reddit comment!<p>I'm really excited for the next few versions :)<p>1. <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/direction/" rel="nofollow">https://about.gitlab.com/direction/</a><p>2. <a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/uploads/b2704189b6067c1adf3c32f6611a3f6c/Screen_Shot_2016-01-14_at_15.44.24.png" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/uploads/b2704189b606...</a><p>3. <a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13723" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13723</a>
Meta comment: this is an excellent price change announcement. SaaS providers should pay attention to this. It's never easy to please everyone with changes to price, and the announcement is quite upfront on the changes being made, why they're being made, and some examples of what the change looks like in practical terms (including the negative changes).<p>Well done GitLab.
It's good to see this new pricing model. It's pretty obvious, a lot of the really hard problems that Enterprise would want solved, are being developed by commercially driven ventures. And by going this route, GitLab makes themselves WAY more attractive for these 3rd party vendors, to want to develop for GitLab.<p>Atlassian, with their Marketplace (<a href="https://marketplace.atlassian.com/" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.atlassian.com/</a>), clearly spelt out how they could make you (3rd party vendor) money, if you developed for Bitbucket. GitLab, until this recent price change, never had one.<p>Plus this makes sense. GitLab's greatest value, is its foot in the door for Enterprise, and this is good first step to leveraging it.
Now that's good news (for me, at least).<p>I never paid to use GitLab because I'm using it for a private use and could not afford to pay for 10 licences when I only needed one. Seems like I have no excuses any more :)
$39/user/year is indeed affordable for small teams. I'm using bitbucket and github these days. Now if gitlab can run on smaller VPS instances I will be totally sold. That is, if I'm a small team, why do I need 2GB-memory etc to run gitlab? which costs more monthly, how about 512MB memory with one-core for a small team? Can it be optimized further?
I think it's great they are dropping the price for smaller teams, but there will be some huge price increases for some companies. The examples they give all include the 50% discount so the 100 user with support will actually end up costing $13,800 instead of the $4,900 that they would be currently paying after the initial discount ends.
After spending two minutes clicking around my free account, I couldn't see either how I'd upgrade to a paid account or why I'd want to. Seems like an important usability issue.
This is awesome! If only you had made this change about a yr ago we would be running Gitlab instead of Stash/Bitbucket. The new pricing plan will put you guys ahead of both GitHub Enterprise and Bitbucket Server.