&gt; The latter costs roughly <i>5 times</i> more than the former!<p>And developers cost several orders of magnitude more than the software license.<p>The decision wasn&#x27;t a matter of looking at features and making a logical decision. The decision was made by taking a sampling of developers and allowing them to test both systems and relying on their preference. They were unanimous that they preferred GHE. In drilling into their preference, the merge request nomenclature was the only issue that everyone mentioned they disliked.<p>And yes, the company wastes money like no other...it&#x27;s part of the culture here and the result of having cash cow products that have very little competition. The only reason there was an evaluation was because one group inside the company was using Gitlab and another GH.com and the company decided to standardize on a single in-house solution.