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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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You can try https://ora.pm

This is great! But it's fairly lacking in some features. Any word on release of API docs so devs can integrate their workflow into it?

We are planning to open API but it will be after the launch. What kind of features do you want to see?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#102

I'm a big fan of Trello but I dread using Atlassian products. I do not have a good feeling about this. Hopefully Atlassian can learn from what makes Trello so wonderful instead of JIRA-ifying it into oblivion.

Trello is a JIRA competitor based on providing simplicity to task boards.

Why would they JIRA-ify it? They would lose their audience who sought a JIRA alternative in the first place. From their blog post on the subject https://blogs.atlassian.com/2017/01/atlassian-plus-trello/ they seem to acknowledge this

I happen to use, and like, both products. JIRA at work (where I want a lot of the features) and Trello for personal/small group projects and even family/household stuff where I just need _simple_

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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and Github Project is a very basic Trello clone.

Github Project is to Trello as Bitbucket is to Github. Guess which two products I use every day, and which two I avoid like the plague.

Trello, Bitbucket and Github are mature products. Github Projects is MVP.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#104

I'm a big fan of Trello but I dread using Atlassian products. I do not have a good feeling about this. Hopefully Atlassian can learn from what makes Trello so wonderful instead of JIRA-ifying it into oblivion.

Funny how much opinions can differ. I've used them both professionally and I think Trello scales poorly above 5-10 people while Jira is the least-worst option for running a project at any team size.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#105
post #43

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Imo, GitLab is a more worthy competitor than BitBucket.

I agree with you, to me it looks like BitBucket hasn't evolved at all in five years. The only change worth mentioning is that they made me transition to an "Atlassian account", which was as annoying as when Flickr made me create a Yahoo account.

There are a few new features over the last 5 years...

  * Merge checks
  * Build status (finally...)
  * Audit logs
  * Inline editing
From: https://bitbucket.org/whats-new

Nothing that keeps it above Github, but they always seem to maintain feature parity.

/not a bitbucket shill

//just don't like inaccurate comments.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#106
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Trello has apparently about 19 million users. And I would bet that the majority of them are not the typical target audience of Atlassian products (i.e. software development teams). So I wonder if they are mostly aquiring the user base here in order to expand their potential market?

Just to add my 2 cents, I've worked with a dev team that used Trello for project coordination.

I worked for a game studio several years ago and we used Trello to report on what we worked on that day to our Programming Manager.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#107
Congrats to Trello and Fog Creek Software!

I've moved on to Zenhub instead of Trello, but it's indeed a really nice product that can be used by many, and not just people in software development

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#108

I'm a big fan of Trello but I dread using Atlassian products. I do not have a good feeling about this. Hopefully Atlassian can learn from what makes Trello so wonderful instead of JIRA-ifying it into oblivion.

Funny how much opinions can differ. I've used them both professionally and I think Trello scales poorly above 5-10 people while Jira is the least-worst option for running a project at any team size.

This is also my experience. I like JIRAs search, and writing experience better. And the integration with Github & Bitbucket is lovely also.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#109

So Fog Creek - makers of Fogbugz, which lost out bigtime to JIRA - have now sold Trello to Atlassian? Is there nothing left of Fogbugz?

They spin out each of their products (Stack Overflow, Trello) as separate corporations so Fog Creek didn't own Trello.

Edit: I guess the spinning-out doesn't say anything about ownership (though the article does say Trello did a round of funding after the spin-out)

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#110
From http://blog.trello.com/trello-atlassian

>> We will continue operating as a standalone service, and we will continue to integrate deeply with all of the tools available out there that help people collaborate (and you can look forward to some great integrations with HipChat, Confluence and JIRA).

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