I was realizing a Proof of Concept, using #GitLab about a year since my employee wanted a self-host git server, with all CI/CD stuff, security, dependencies, etc, and GitLab was the best option for that.
My employer use SVN + Jenkins, and mostly pipelines runs on Windows.
In the past year I have configured the #GitLab server, some basic pipelines in C# and Java, to just present the benefits of have everything in the same platform.
I was also converting the code from SVN to Git, removing all binary from the history and, in same cases, using git filter-repo to convert the encoding from WIN1252, ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8-BOM to UTF-8.
Now the "good part", other unit was renewing the contract with #Microsoft and they showed #AzureBoards and a manager was crazy saying they need that because #GitLab focus is with development, and Azure Boards was to business...
I replied saying Boards is part of Azure DevOps, and Azure Boards focus on development not business. This conversation didn't advance, he want Boards now.
After that, my employer start saying the #GitLab Ultimate is too expensive to the company, today it cost $99.
Since they was renewing the contract with Microsoft, they added on it GitHub + Azure Boards + Azure Advanced Security, saying the Microsoft will give a discount. Until now I don't had access to how much was the discount, but checking the values, it will cost:
$21 GitHub + $52 Azure DevOps (Basic+Test Plans) + $49 GitHub Advanced Security = $122 per user/month.
This week they want do a PoC with #VeraCode and #GitHub
How that will be more cheap than #GitLab Ultimate price?
I had created a report in which I evaluated all missing features from GitHub that need to be contracted to compensate GitLab Ultimate.
Values from GitLab was $570K year, versus $1.04M-$2.35M(value depends on the 3rd party tool)
The total is based on 600 licenses.
Gus Schenkel 
