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My understanding has always been that Github never wanted to make the Enterprise product. They would prefer everyone use their hosted services.

But there was just too much demand for GitHub Enterprise, so they made it and are charging an arm and a leg because they can.

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Working in an environment where hosted solutions simply aren't an option, I am grateful GH:E is around.

The actual cost per year ends up being fairly negligible when we factor in the nearly 100% removal of administration overhead that our previous VC options required.

That may have been the case initially, but I get the impression they take it very seriously now - they've hired a number of people to work on it full time, and I think it makes up a decent chunk of their overall revenue.

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