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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Because everyone else is still using git.

There is a Mercurial extension that allows you to use hg commands to interact with a git repo https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git

My experience with hg-git has been that it is not always a great citizen with git repos and it can cause something of a mess. (This is a few years old now, because like the rest of the world I switched to git; it may have improved in the meantime.)

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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I do use diffs for code review. I simply use a much, much better native tool instead of a crappy web tool.

I'm sure guys who have paid for the enterprise version of BitBucket would rather not have to pay $60 for every developer for BeyondCompare on top of what they pay for BitBucket

You can use BeyondCompare. I just use vimdiff.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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JIRA + Bitbucket (and now + Trello) is a very effective competitor to Github among enterprise companies. Github's issue tracker sort of sucks and this hurts it tremendously -- I know as I live with that shitty issue tracker in an enterprise situation.

Yah, we're fighting this too. We have back and forth with various devs on our team - some use github, we all have to use Tracker. Just curious as to what you think Github could do to fix this. I have a list of wishes and I'm always curious what other people have.

We are using https://www.zenhub.com/

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Open letter to Atlassian: Trello are an amazing team and an amazing product, and what makes the product so amazing is how domain-agnostic it is. They refuse at all costs to add any feature that helps use Trello in one specific way over others (e.g. lists = stages in task lifetime, cards = tasks; lists = assigned people, cards = tasks; lists = dates, cards = events, ...), and that made Trello equally useful as a Kanba…

I think Atlassian is indeed acquiring Trello to fit it in with the rest of their suite. This is probably going to be done to the detriment of the other use cases.

On the bright side, this might pave the way for a new product in this space, or some open-source tools which replicate the same basic funtionality.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Not related at all but I interviewed for Trello in 2016, the meeting was super cool (video call in the browser, nice RH girl apparently very excited about my profile), the job was full remote, they needed help to move from Backbone to React and they have millions of users (!) so I was quite hyped. Then I received an email of refusal from another guy containing only a quote from the CEO. I asked for feedback (probably…

What was the quote?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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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.

We're coming up on 6 years now and they still haven't released code search:

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/2874/ability-to-sea...

That's incredible.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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It makes sense mainly because Trello is a competitor to Atlassian and its best to kill it now before it takes too much market share. edit: Yes right now there might not be an exact competitor but in a few years it could easily match everything Jira does.

why would they do that though? Trello covers a market that was not really served by any Atlassian products (or rather, market segments that weren't well treated). Trello has a huge active following, and a lot of users who would otherwise not know Atlassian products. Getting any sort of proper cross-selling going on would be great for their ecosystem long-term. People might start at Trello, but go to Atlassian product…

In the context of discussion about mergers and acquisitions, I believe "killing a competitor" almost exclusively means purchasing a company so that it's no longer a threat. In the course of doing so, you assimilate the acquiree's users, or at least try to. This is the meaning I interpreted from the comment you responded to.

The rarer definition, which is that a company actually shuts down the product and doesn't make an attempt to migrate its users, strikes me as something more typical for a small startup that has not yet reached real market validation, but which has very impressive R&D.

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