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nah, too expensive.

I was interested and was waiting to see because this would be something we might consider (50+ developers in 7 teams). But it's not worth it: my man hours to configure Trac + Git (well actually Mercurial here but we could have migrated with ease) costs thousands less. Indeed we would probably need around 80 licenses all told for the occasional contractors, offsite workers and third party contributors. That's about $50,000 a year - and there is no way it could save us that much a year.

Yes you get a neat clean interface and some fancy graphs etc. but, seriously, they arent all that useful day-to-day. We actually use Bitbucket at the moment (and trac internally for super secret projects) and we do not miss the few fancy features from Github.

License it at $200/user and volume license it at $150 (maybe $100) per user over 10 users and $250 per 10 users standard support. Then we'll talk.

Where I work we shell out serious cash per year for software licenses and so on - so it's not a case of us being scrooges: it's just not worth it.

That said: they will sell a bomb load :)



Of course now they can cut the price by 50% in 6 months still make a bundle and make it look super cheap by comparison. Always better to revise down then up.




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