Hi,
adding my 2c
Disclaimer:
I’m not working for Mattermost, but provide the German translations as a contribution to the product.
As far as I read concerning the limitations of the Entry edition, the 10.000 message restriction is CHANNEL based and not all messages, as stated here (We might need clarification on that):
Editions and Offerings - Mattermost documentation
LDAP / SAML was never supported without a payed license (there were some workarounds mimicking the GitLab OAuth API, true for this, I used this myself).
You’re referring to this feature as “critical for secure enterprise environments”, and I’m totally with you with one exception: Enterprises should pay for enterprise features.
Nobody is forced to use the licensed version, regardless if it’s Entry, Professional, Enterprise or Enterprise Advanced. The free Team version might suite most users better: It’s open as Open Source should be. Lacking features might be developed by some enthusiasts and, if not, one has to live with it or find a better fitting product. The user limit of 250 is a suggestion & AFAIK not a hard limit.
If we really want Mattermost to become a better Open Source tool, it’s on us. Either we use what we get & IMHO for small teams up to 50 users Entry is really a great option with all features available. Beside Mattermost, I’ve to use Teams & boy, how do I hate it: Slow, not reliable, confusing, integrations are a major pain… you name it.
We licensed Mattermost for some internal small team with great integrations to ERP & logistics in place. Also a very well working Atlassian integration. AI agents using Ollama API are running smooth & fast. Anyway, with the new Entry version we will switch back to a non licensed version as the price tag for us is now too high for Enterprise features (17 USD / month / user) (Advance would be 38 USD, but this is even more overkill for us).
Mattermost clearly focuses on major enterprise or government installations at a large scale with some unique selling points for these environments in terns of secure collaboration. If this is the way for them, OK: We can, but we do not have to follow.