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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by akjainaj »

pretzel wrote: post #105
akjainaj wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's okay. It's just that I tried to use it a few months ago and saw they still don't even have syntax highlighting for diffs. It's pretty depressing and it makes it look like they have abandoned the service.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by runevault »

Kiro wrote: post #78
jon-wood wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My sense is that Fog Creek is more of an incubator than a traditional software company now, albeit one which is incredibly selective about what they invest in. Stack Overflow and Trello are both independent companies which started out as side projects for Fog Creek, and I imagine GoMix will eventually go the same way.

Fog Creek should still be the majority owner, no?

I would assume either FogCreek as a company or Joel and Pryor as owners thereof (especially Pryor since he was CEO of Trello).

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by [deleted] »

pretzel wrote: post #105
akjainaj wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by miheermunjal »

my experience with Atlassian products tells me that this will likely become a "third project type" to JIRA: Scrum, Kanban, Trello (or whatever generalized name is given). They feel like different products.

Or Atlassian is using this to go after competitors like A-Ha! which it doesn't currently serve (i.e. non software development projects)

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by tootie »

rkrzr wrote: post #19

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?

My company uses JIRA and Trello depending on the scope of the project.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by arkitaip »

taytus wrote: post #85

I like Trello, I use it often. $450M... for a todo list. Yes, I use it. Yes, I think is useful. Yes, I think this valuation is absolutely crazy.

I've said it before and I've say it again: as a community we are not only poor at evaluating startup ideas but shockingly bad at appreciating actual business successes. You know the saying that hindsight is 20/20? Does not apply.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by pjmlp »

k__ wrote: post #50
BjoernKW wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atlassian doesn't have a reputation for shutting down services they've acquired.

Right, but they don't have a good reputation to start with. Somehow the only good things I heared about them came from people who made their money by building stuff they wanted to sell on the Atlassian platform. People less biased always choose alternatives. I can't say much about them myself. I only used Bitbucket, because of the free private repos. Their UIs are pretty mediocre, but I use it via Git cli, so it does…

> Right, but they don't have a good reputation to start with.

We use Jira since the early days, and are quite pleased with them.

So far, all the other systems I have used were all worse than Jira.

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