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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Yes – Just like Bitbucket Issues didn't marry JIRA. One core difference between Trello and JIRA Agile is, in Trello you can't hide tickets that you don't want right now in the sprint – In JIRA Agile, you only put a few issues in the sprint so the board looks clean. Anyway. Not sure why some people want to move away from Trello now. Is it that they don't want an identity connection between JIRA and Trello (SSO or simi…

I think it's likely that people who use Trello appreciate the simplicity and Atlassian aren't exactly known for creating simple software (speaking as a past Jira user/admin). I had the same feeling of "oh well, what else can I use in the future" when I read this post.

You can try https://ora.pm

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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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.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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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'm part of one of those.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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How to get rich: 1. Create an awesome ToDo list 2. ??? 3. Profit

I think most of it is about the brand; about buying a name which is already imprinted in millions of minds. The technology alone is probably only worth 1-5% (?) of the price.

Agreed. Maybe the 2. ??? was "How the heck did they go from unknown to a recognizable brand?"

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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or get shut down...

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 doesn't matter much for me.

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