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Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

#22
"Adding a service like StatusPage, which launched three years ago, seems like a natural fit for Atlassian."

Why is this a natural fit for Atlassian? Not being snarky, I just don't see how this is any more a natural fit for Atlassian than lots of other companies that provide picks-and-shovels to the software builders of the world.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

#23

Seems like the perfect acquisition for handling HipChat's downtime.

Ouch. I know snark is generally frowned upon, but HipChat and hosted JIRA/Confluence downtimes have been serious issues for us.

Sorry, as a paying customer this is true. Hipchat in particular is down almost daily and its basically a running joke at this point.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

#24

"Adding a service like StatusPage, which launched three years ago, seems like a natural fit for Atlassian." Why is this a natural fit for Atlassian? Not being snarky, I just don't see how this is any more a natural fit for Atlassian than lots of other companies that provide picks-and-shovels to the software builders of the world.

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Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

#25

"Adding a service like StatusPage, which launched three years ago, seems like a natural fit for Atlassian." Why is this a natural fit for Atlassian? Not being snarky, I just don't see how this is any more a natural fit for Atlassian than lots of other companies that provide picks-and-shovels to the software builders of the world.

Atlassian has tooling around handling support (Service Desk), bug tracking (Jira), and I think it seems like a natural extension to integrate those products into an external facing service like StatusPage.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

#27

I remember when I was doing a talk in Melbourne, another developer told me what he didn't like about Atlassian was that they essentially only had one product (was it Jira? or Confluence? can't remember) and almost everything else in their offering set; they bought from other people and re-engineered to fit into their product line. Having administered, Jira, Confluence and Bamboo servers (all with slightly different i…

Have you learned how to search it? :)

As if one can, it is indeed a perfect choice (money aside).

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