Introducing GitHub Enterprise

Someone joked that they'd sell a lot more at $4995.<p>I second that! People, don't under-estimate the issue of signature limits! My old signing limit at one job was $5000, meaning that I needed to get my boss to approve something like this, whereas if it were a dollar cheaper, I could approve it myself.<p>So it's no joke.

As I am not "enterprise", these questions are more out of curiosity than anything else:<p>1. How often do you get updates? One of the things I love about GitHub is the constant stream of new features. Do these make it into github:enterprise fairly soon after?<p>2. What happens after your "subscription" runs out? That is to say, if I pay for a year, then don't pay next year, do I simply not get any more updates/support? Or is there some kill switch and I lose my content too? I'm sure the answer to this is similar to all enterprise products, but again, I've never experienced anything in the enterprise.

I love felixge's comment on a bug he found with the price estimator:<p><a href="https://github.com/blog/978-introducing-github-enterprise#comment-15008" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/blog/978-introducing-github-enterprise#co...</a>

I like Github and use it every day but as a longtime advocate of Fog Creek's software I'm a little sad to see Github continuing to move in on Fogbugz/Kiln territory (not to mention competition from the Australians) with not much response from Fog Creek to compete on the lower end of the market. Github enterprise Pricing/features are about on par with the Fog Creek offering. Git vs. Mercurial but it's still DVCS and though I would consider Fogbugz/Kiln a bit more advanced as far feature implementation all the major types of features are in both products.<p><a href="http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/for-your-server.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/for-your-server.html</a><p>What I would REALLY love to see is Fog Creek compete a bit more in Githubs space with their hosted service. I think there is room in the market for a Fogbugz/Kiln lite product and the competition would do everyone, especially the users, a lot of good. I think Joel even wrote an article on pricing and market segmentation [1] unfortunately they may have already figured out the sweet spot with their current price points putting the prices in the range of me being able to get the bank I used to work for to use their product but not the little bootstrapped company where I currently work.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...</a>

For those concerned about the total costs: Don't worry. Looks like there's a bit of a discount at the higher levels. <a href="http://i.imgur.com/8A9Dx.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/8A9Dx.png</a>

How do they ensure that their code is not stolen? Any insights on that?

What we're not really talking about is how good github is as a product. As far as I'm concerned, it's a 10x improvement over other ticketing and SCM systems.<p>I don't think they're charging enough. Congrats guys!

This news comes just hours after I finished installing Gitorious on my company's own server. I'm glad I went through that trouble because $5k is crazy for a startup to pay for a self-hosted git web interface.<p>Heck, I'll install your own Gitorious on Rackspace Cloud Server for $99 for anyone who requests. Host your own code.

I hope they're going to offer pro rata on seat volumes between multiples of 20. If I have just 25 users it's $10,000 (assuming their pricing widget is completely accurate).

Interesting to see they are forwarding links from the Firewall Install page (fi.github.com) to this.<p>Edit: <i>We first launched the precursor to GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Firewall Install, over two years ago. </i><p>Same pricing, but better branding. I wonder what else has changed?

&#62;&#62; "GitHub Enterprise is priced at $5,000 per 20 users"<p>How does this fare against other enterprise hosted scm/version control products?

I wonder if this pricing includes things like read-only users (analysts, QA staff, etc.) and deployment activities in the user count. It would suck to have to pay for a license to deploy from GHE using Capistrano. :/

I like that it is distributed as an OVF, but is there any thought to doing an AMI as well? I know it isn't meant for public use, but in my case I don't want it in the internal datacenter, nor is it easy to bridge subnets in remote offices. An AMI for EC2 deployment behind a VPN would be really nice.

My first thought is who needs "social" features in an enterprise VCS? I love GitHub and think it's biggest benefit is the ability to {easily} fork and watch projects. Does this really translate to the enterprise? I can't imagine a corporation where its a good think to have two groups disagreeing on a direction and causing a fork. Management would have a cow!<p>The bottom line is what does GitHub Enterprise buy my over something like Redmine or Gitorious? GHE is probably easier to install but I still have to manage my own hardware &#38; drive space. And with the open source alternatives I don't have to worry about licensing and can crack it open to add adapters to other software (#include "standard open source header").

I'm having a hard time finding comparable Team Foundation Licensing costs for a team of 20. Does anyone have an idea how this compares?

We've been using a demo of this at my day job for a few weeks now. It's been pretty awesome, we use an internal IRC server (which could never talk to the outside world) and using the hooks it provides is super useful.<p>We also have a complex code pushing system, and integrating with github enterprise will be a bit easier than raw git.

This sounds like a support nightmare. I hope GitHub has learned from the mistakes that SourceForge ran into when they tried packaging their product for the enterprise.

I wonder if it has anything to do with release of <a href="http://gitlabhq.com" rel="nofollow">http://gitlabhq.com</a>

Interesting. $20/month/user seems pretty damn cheap.

I love GitHub and all, but the whole Enterprise label is kind of a joke. You slap "Enterprise" on a service, make a few nominal features available to the people who buy into the ploy and then charge them out the nose for it.