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Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

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Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

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Post by nikatwork »

letstryagain wrote: post #141
madeofpalk wrote: post #96

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> They really make awesome products Oh dear god. As an employee at a medium sized company that uses Jira and Confluence, I have to disagree. I'm sure people out there have managed to wrangle and configure Jira into something usable, but it's implementation where I work has been just horrible. And confluence... Apart from being just slow and unreliable, it's text editor gives me nightmares. I mean, all due respect for…

Do you prefer Fogbugz over the Atlassian bug tracker?

Exactly, JIRA's UX was clunky when I last used it in '09, but after using Trac, Redmine, QC, Bugzilla and (God help me) CA USD, JIRA is far superior. Haven't tried FogBugz but I'm a Joel fan, how does the UI compare?

Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

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Post by sergiotapia »

I love Atlassian products. I use it on every project I make, and recommend it to clients when we need a place to keep workflow centralized.

We use:

JIRA - For issues Bitbucket - For code repository Confluence - For documentation Bamboo - For a build server and CI

I'd love to settle on HipChat as well but it's stupidly difficult to get it to pull git commits and other things directly into chat.

Flowdock is much much simpler in usage, UI and integration - so Atlassian team, if you're reading this: Let me 1-click integrate git commit notification into a HipChat room of my choosing, you own both products - make them connect in the easiest most straightforward way!

Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

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Post by thathonkey »

rimantas wrote: post #65
thathonkey wrote: post #56

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Sourcetree is by far the best Git GUI I've ever seen.

Did you try Tower? That's a paid app though.

I personally use the command line but a lot of my team members aren't comfortable with CLIs so that's why I was exploring Sourcetree and found it to be quite full-featured compared to others I've tried. I've found that Git has so many options, most GUIs barely scratch the surface of what is available.

Thanks for the suggestion though. I'll give Tower a whirl.

Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

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Post by kisielk »

voltagex_ wrote: post #129
zevyoura wrote: post #110

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They bought Crucible and Bitbucket too, doesn't make them any less an Atlassian product.

I didn't even realise BitBucket wasn't originally an Atlassian product. What do you think makes it seem so seamless, or what makes Atlassian so good at integrating new products?

TBH I would say they are "ok" at integrating products. Until last year I worked at a company that used Atlassian products, and while they worked well together there were definitely a lot of points of integration that were missing which we felt should have been there. It's been getting better over time, but it's definitely not seamless.

Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

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Post by ssmoot »

voltagex_ wrote: post #129
zevyoura wrote: post #110

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They bought Crucible and Bitbucket too, doesn't make them any less an Atlassian product.

I didn't even realise BitBucket wasn't originally an Atlassian product. What do you think makes it seem so seamless, or what makes Atlassian so good at integrating new products?

BitBucket/JIRA/Confluence integration could be much tighter. BitBucket definitely feels like an island IME.

That said, it's most of what you want from Github at much more reasonable rates. So I'm very happy with it outside of the positive network effects of forking on Github (I rarely see a lib I want to fork on BitBucket).

Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

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Post by madeofpalk »

letstryagain wrote: post #141
madeofpalk wrote: post #96

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> They really make awesome products Oh dear god. As an employee at a medium sized company that uses Jira and Confluence, I have to disagree. I'm sure people out there have managed to wrangle and configure Jira into something usable, but it's implementation where I work has been just horrible. And confluence... Apart from being just slow and unreliable, it's text editor gives me nightmares. I mean, all due respect for…

Do you prefer Fogbugz over the Atlassian bug tracker?

So I think the 'problem' with Jira is that it's the SAP of todo lists. We used to use it for non-tech teams in our org to manage their tasks, tech team or organise sprints (and somehow coordinate that with designers), and as well as for issue and bug tracking.

In the end we just scrapped it all and went with Trello. Yes, it's 'less powerful', but we've found that you don't really need much more. For all the features that Trello 'lacks', it makes up for in speed, simplicity and ease of use.

Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

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Post by allsystemsgo »

schneid wrote: post #97
zevyoura wrote: post #94

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>doesn't make useless dodads or chat apps or whatever To be fair, Atlassian makes HipChat, and though it's not exactly the foundation of their valuation it is a pretty significant product.

To be fair, Atlassian bought HipChat :)

Can you use HipChat for free for personal use or is it strictly enterprise?

Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

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Post by jilted »

madeofpalk wrote: post #96
malanj wrote: post #8

Really cool that you can reach that kind of valuation with a basket of products, rather than a single run-away network effect fueled win. I find it very inspirational that they do that well by building great software that people love. also: They really make awesome products (we use BitBucket, HipChat and Confluence)

> They really make awesome products Oh dear god. As an employee at a medium sized company that uses Jira and Confluence, I have to disagree. I'm sure people out there have managed to wrangle and configure Jira into something usable, but it's implementation where I work has been just horrible. And confluence... Apart from being just slow and unreliable, it's text editor gives me nightmares. I mean, all due respect for…

I agree, I've also been at a company which merged with another company; and both were each using their own Jira and Confluence instances along with plugins. Horrible products.

Re: Atlassian Valued at $3.3 Billion

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Post by eean »

sergiotapia wrote: post #152

I love Atlassian products. I use it on every project I make, and recommend it to clients when we need a place to keep workflow centralized. We use: JIRA - For issues Bitbucket - For code repository Confluence - For documentation Bamboo - For a build server and CI I'd love to settle on HipChat as well but it's stupidly difficult to get it to pull git commits and other things directly into chat. Flowdock is much much s…

http://help.hipchat.com/knowledgebase/articles/65271-bitbuck...

:)

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