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Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?

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Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?

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Post by yshamrei »

I can’t even imagine why Anthropic would need Atlassian. Atlassian doesn’t even have an MCP server built in—you have to set up an external one.

And Anthropic could build something just as good using its own tool with blackjack and hookers. (In fact, forget the park!(с))

Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?

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Post by mandevil »

Interesting to see if Claude Code gets a lot better with a complete set of all jira tickets along with the integration to see the associated actual PR's, the linking of issues... it would depend on who owns the Atlassian data, of course. But that could be the last best set of programming data out there, if you had the complete Atlassian cloud-hosted archives.

Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?

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Post by SilverElfin »

jnwatson wrote: post #4

But what value could this possibly be to Anthropic? I'm usually the last one to suggest that you can vibe code a SaaS clone, but this is an exception. JIRA clone is generic enough that it might even be a good agent benchmark.

From what I read, Atlassian has data from most of the Fortune 500. And this metadata that they are wanting to train on, is data that Anthropic can use to build software for specific verticals (like they just did with Claude Design), or simply to make things like Cowork function better using this proprietary data collected over the last 20 years.

Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?

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Post by atonse »

Eh I don't see how this makes any sense. It's a huge corporation built on a legacy app that's just been near impossible to modernize despite their best efforts, what's the benefit?

My guess is that Atlassian is getting ready to just ditch Rovo and make a big push to embed Claude maybe?

Re: Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?

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Post by tracerbulletx »

yshamrei wrote: post #3

I can’t even imagine why Anthropic would need Atlassian. Atlassian doesn’t even have an MCP server built in—you have to set up an external one. And Anthropic could build something just as good using its own tool with blackjack and hookers. (In fact, forget the park!(с))

data, lock in, and an acceleration of go to market penetration?
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