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So Github gives their product away to people that don't have enough money to host on their own secure servers, and... what else? Where do they make their money?
by comrade1 11y ago
So Github gives their product away to people that don't have enough money to host on their own secure servers, and... what else? Where do they make their money? It seems from the comments here that their enterprise market is trivial.
- tracker1 11y agoThey make money both from business accounts and from github enterprise... the actual resource costs for hosting the open-source projects is relatively small... The costs for just the business accounts, not including enterprise, for private repositories probably covers their actual costs. As a business strategy, Enterprise software has plenty of room for a profit margin. As it stands, they have mindshare and are probably actually breaking even, or making at least a modest profit. This funding round is probably more about flushing out their enterprise offerings, so they are better in terms of competing with alternatives, or even bringing in better bridge/migration support. I've seen/used Jira, TFS, SVN and plenty of other systems that integrate project management and source control. There's definitely room for much better tooling here, and Github is in a better position than most to take over this space.
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoGitHub almost certainly makes almost all of their money selling their on-premise Enterprise product, as I and others have mentioned. Pricing on this product is $2,500 per 10 users per year.