Pass from me, given the published pricing is:
> Contact Sales to learn more
> Contact Sales to learn more
So, I guess, "well done"? (it hurts a little though, I'm too in the camp of wanting to see the pricing beforehand)
One of my ancestors had a company selling commodities. He wouldn’t answer the phone until the customer had called three times and left messages. He said this was a filter to identify the customers who really needed his product.
The logic is sound and on the surface clever. But would he have made more money servicing all customers? Or perhaps marketing?
My dad runs a shop restoring classic cars, mostly as a hobby. The number of minutes you can spend on the phone discussing some potential client's great-grandfather's old clunker and their dreams / aspirations of getting it fixed is nearly limitless, but the number of clients willing to actually pay and wait for it is a tiny fraction.
Similarly I looked into having a hair transplant done and found most places near me actually charge for consultations! It probably makes sense, though. The market of "guys that want to be less bald" is gigantic, but the ones serious enough to plop down tens of thousands of dollars for it is much smaller. Narrowing that group down made for a consultation that was much more personal and focused than it'd have to be if they offered it for free knowing 95%+ will never be seen again.
We could argue that they would get more money, but at the end of the day they probably decided that a single bigger fish is definitely worth losing business from a hundred smaller ones. I guess it's one of those "nice problems to have", if you grow so much that you have it.
Looks like they expect you to upgrade to their Enterprise plan. That’s a 5x increase in subscription costs.
If you're in an organisation that's are already using GitHub and this scanning capability is as good as that of CheckMarx, Snyk, etc. then it would be a no brainer to upgrade your Enterprise GitHub plan (if you're not already on Enterprise).