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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 canistr »

chinhodado wrote: post #283
Gelob wrote: post #248

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Thats about all Atlassian is good at. HipChat has become an abomination of a client across Windows and Mac. Every new release is about fixing functionality they broke with the previous release and even then it still isn't fixed. Logging in from multiple places has always been terrible. I'll be logged in on Mac and available but randomly get emails as if I'm offline. I'll be online on my phone and get e-mails. I wan't…

And don't even get me started on SourceTree. Just about every release since 1.5.2 is a disaster, to the point of almost non-usable right now.

I like Tower on macOS, but version 2 is significantly worse than version 1. UI/UX and the number of bugs has been a major pain-point that has made me consider switching to SourceTree. But I still haven't gotten use to SourceTree and GitHub Desktop isn't a great client either as a substitute.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by DannyBee »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #390
mhp wrote: post #366

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The Trellists made Trello. And the Trellists are going to keep working on Trello at Atlassian. Atlassian understands that Trello is unique and beloved and they definitely do not want to mess that up. Read this article that Jordan Novet wrote. I know seeing is believing and you will have to wait and see, but I agree with everything Jay Simons says in this interview. "During the interview, Simons took time to assure me…

To be fair I've been a part of 3 acquisitions and have seen this story play out tens of times with beloved software. It always starts out this way. "The original folks are going to run it, not the new company!" "Things will stay the same" yadda yadda yadda. 1-3 years down the road, it'll be a different story. It'll be unlikely that the executive team will stick around past whatever agreement they signed with Atlassia…

I'm with you.

Truthfully, unless you are being acquired by an aggregator like berkshire hathaway, I don't get the "nothing will change attitude" you often see. Of course it will change. They bought you to change something (usually about them).

The number that stay truly autonomous is ... very very very low.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by ArlenBales »

sanguy wrote: post #272

This is really bad as Atlassian is like a prize winning show pony -- great marketing and webinars but once you get deeply into the product usage you find all sorts of problems and open issues. BitBucket has been waiting for 2FA for 5 years! Bambo was recently semi-retired going against a lot of users investments. And these are just recent. I would not expect wonderful things for Trello and thankfully it appears they…

> BitBucket has been waiting for 2FA for 5 years!

BitBucket has had 2FA since Sep 2015: https://blog.bitbucket.org/2015/09/10/two-step-verification-...

Do some research, unless your goal was to slander.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by angersock »

bsparker wrote: post #375
pc86 wrote: post #372

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I'm sure you made quite a large sum of money off of this deal, but Atlassian doesn't have a great track record of purchasing non-Atlassian products and not messing them up. And... "Trellists?" They're just people.

Culture of greatness and all that, let him be.

It really has been An Incredible Journey.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by logn »

brianbreslin wrote: post #337
deepuj wrote: post #322

This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck.

JIRA interface blows. However you're looking at it from a very selfish standpoint. The Trello team has probably been working on this for years with the explicit goal of an exit, better to get bought by likeminded product people and make a big return than to be bought by Google and have the product killed entirely.

The new sprint-related features in Jira are pretty good and actually remind me of Trello.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by gilini »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #390
mhp wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Trellists made Trello. And the Trellists are going to keep working on Trello at Atlassian. Atlassian understands that Trello is unique and beloved and they definitely do not want to mess that up. Read this article that Jordan Novet wrote. I know seeing is believing and you will have to wait and see, but I agree with everything Jay Simons says in this interview. "During the interview, Simons took time to assure me…

To be fair I've been a part of 3 acquisitions and have seen this story play out tens of times with beloved software. It always starts out this way. "The original folks are going to run it, not the new company!" "Things will stay the same" yadda yadda yadda. 1-3 years down the road, it'll be a different story. It'll be unlikely that the executive team will stick around past whatever agreement they signed with Atlassia…

I get where you're coming from but the guy above was straight up declaring Trello's death. Even with skepticism you can agree it's being too pessimistic too early.

And if it goes down a different path, there will be a hole in the market waiting for the next Trello and that's good too.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by lmm »

maxxxxx wrote: post #356
positr0n wrote: post #350

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Yep, the two products are even written in separate languages! Bitbucket Server is written in Java and bitbucket.org is written in Python. I was dumbfounded when I found out they were two separate codebases.

I thought it's like JIRA. Or is JIRA self hosted also different from the cloud version?

I don't understand what you mean by "like JIRA". Remember all these Atlassian products have been acquired as what were originally separate companies.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by iamaelephant »

pc86 wrote: post #372
mhp wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Trellists made Trello. And the Trellists are going to keep working on Trello at Atlassian. Atlassian understands that Trello is unique and beloved and they definitely do not want to mess that up. Read this article that Jordan Novet wrote. I know seeing is believing and you will have to wait and see, but I agree with everything Jay Simons says in this interview. "During the interview, Simons took time to assure me…

I'm sure you made quite a large sum of money off of this deal, but Atlassian doesn't have a great track record of purchasing non-Atlassian products and not messing them up. And... "Trellists?" They're just people.

Which products do you think Atlassian messed up after acquisition? Disclaimer I'm an Atlassian employee, but just curious.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by farkas »

creativityhurts wrote: post #333
vecter wrote: post #330

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Can you put in concrete terms why you see this as a problem?

Atlassian will most likely "sunset" Trello or somehow include it in JIRA.

We have no plans to sunset Trello. Trello is an incredible product, and an incredible brand, with an amazing team behind it.

Atlassian's product range today includes unstructured (Confluence) and structured (JIRA) products.

Trello fits right in the middle. It has a myriad of use-cases[1] and is loved by the millions who use it daily.

[1] - https://trello.com/inspiration

Scott, CEO Atlassian

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