Kinda funny that they market their enterprise plan to startups.
GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
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Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#12Startups requiring compliance documentation from GitHub were forced to upgrade to GH Enterprise. Many competitors provide this for free or a fraction of the price. An industry based on an open source language will naturally have a race to the bottom in terms of price.
GitHub's CLI is a move to get people off the open source solution by obfuscation.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#13Interesting that it’s explicitly limited to B2B startups. Is there a feeling that B2C isn’t a “real” business? Or maybe because B2B startups are more likely to be acquired by larger companies, thus absorbing Microsoft’s stack?
I suspect it's because Microsoft's core DNA is B2B so they're able to justify an accelerator and the subsequent resource pull for it by going that route. Your latter suspicion is also not unfounded either I'd bet.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#14Startups requiring compliance documentation from GitHub were forced to upgrade to GH Enterprise. Many competitors provide this for free or a fraction of the price. An industry based on an open source language will naturally have a race to the bottom in terms of price. GitHub's CLI is a move to get people off the open source solution by obfuscation.
The CLI is itself open source. Surely it can't be a huge barrier for competing software (GitLab, Gitea, etc) to implement its API.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
So basically up 47 free users for 2 years. Not bad.
Is 47 users really a "startup"? If you have anywhere near 47 actual users, affording $1k a month is going to be trivial. Would be nice if you could have, say, 5 users and extend the 2 years by not using all $1k monthly credits, adding users as you grow.
You might also pay for stuff like LFS and packages.
But if I had to guess, $1000 is probably in the 95th+ percentile of spending for teams thus this is letting startups spend on Github resources without worrying about running out of credits for two years
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#16Interesting, it looks like Microsoft has finally realized how unpopular they are among SV style startups. I’ve never been a fan of Windows but if there are enough perks in the program I would seriously consider using a Microsoft stack for a future startup.
Dealing with MS licensing used to be a PITA but maybe it's better now with Azure.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#17Thank you, I am happy with GitLab.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#18I would not use GitHub these days.
On GitLab, you can decide to download all your data anytime and put it into a selfhosted GitLab instance.
Why would I want to give that up and put my balls into the hands of Microsoft?
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#19Having played a lot with gitlab and really happy with it, I'm confused as to why I would look at GitHub.
This looks like it is free as in price, but not free forever and not free of red tape.
Re: GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
#20I would not use GitHub these days. On GitLab, you can decide to download all your data anytime and put it into a selfhosted GitLab instance. Why would I want to give that up and put my balls into the hands of Microsoft?
Seems a bit alarmist..