What I mean is that it's quite clearly not the same product as cloud. It does have roughly the same road map as cloud, just pretty far behind and/or cherry-pick

What I mean is that it's quite clearly not the same product as cloud. It does have roughly the same road map as cloud, just pretty far behind and/or cherry-picking some features in a different order. My experience with enterprise software is that it doesn't matter what the roadmap is as long as you get to choose if/when the benefits outweigh the risks for an update. And you usually want certain releases to get backported security updates for that same reason. You don't have to take new features and their associated bugs but you do want, and get, security fixes. That's a separate thing, because this would be the case if GHE was just "run your own copy of .com." What is really rough about GHE is that you can't choose a lot of the features or IMO baseline requirements like caching that you've probably come to expect from github.com, and may have been around for years. At least not until they can get GHE to parity with .com.