Someone joked that they'd sell a lot more at $4995.

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.

So it's no joke.

As I am not "enterprise", these questions are more out of curiosity than anything else:

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?

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:

https://github.com/blog/978-introducing-github-enterprise#co...

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.

http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/for-your-server.html

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.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...

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

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.

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.

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.

Edit: We first launched the precursor to GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Firewall Install, over two years ago.

Same pricing, but better branding. I wonder what else has changed?

>> "GitHub Enterprise is priced at $5,000 per 20 users"

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!

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 & 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.

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 http://gitlabhq.com

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.