I know the github guys are on HN, so I'd love to hear how they arrived on those prices. They seem very reasonable if not cheap to me, and I'm very interested in the inside scoop.
We debated for a very long time whether we actually wanted to build this product, we like GitHub's SaaS model and the revenue is solid.
In the end we decided the only way we were going to do it is by pricing it high enough that the enterprise world took us seriously, but keeping in mind that smaller teams want to use it as well.
I think the only way to do that is by charging less than Perforce, but far more than other solutions like CollabNet EE.
Im not sure a comparison with Perforce is fair: they have a lot more in terms of tools to deploy per user.
In Enterprise nowadays expensive solutions != better. It's the credit crunch :) managers are under the thumb to deliver working solutions for low cost.
