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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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We're definitely investing in Gomix and we'll be revitalizing FogBugz this year, too — especially for folks who don't find Jira a satisfying or delightful way to work.

I can't figure out what Gomix is...

Iirc it's a simplified PaaS for JS, like ipython notebook / pythonanywhere.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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I hate bitbucket. $12 or so per month for private repos is an extremely small price to pay for an infinitely better UX, better integrations and just all all around better experience. For a tool I use multiple times per hour, "free" doesn't matter much to me. Github isn't perfect, but it's damned close. As far as Jira -- the tool itself isn't bad per se, but the way PMs turn it into their own little power-trip kingdom…

"As far as Jira -- the tool itself isn't bad per se, but the way PMs turn it into their own little power-trip kingdom irritates me." Yeah, this is a pretty common sentiment. Jira is not a great tool, but the things devs really resent is being micromanaged and tracked in such a way that they are turned into a commodity. At the end of the day, if that really bothers you, there are plenty of ways to work free of this fe…

Furthermore, if the PM didn't have JIRA they would find some other way to micromanage your hours. The team I'm on uses a spreadsheet with a hokey gantt chart to pretend like we're meeting our deadlines rather than filling in timesheets in our JIRA system. Micromanagers are going to micromanage no matter what tool they do it in.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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I'm not too concerned about someone getting the code, reading it and discovering a flaw allowing for exploit. I'm much more concerned about someone being able to modify code that will be pulled onto production systems by build and deployment scripts (not to mention the build and deployment scripts themselves) which would allow direct access without any need to hack anything beyond the external cloud service. Even a d…

Yes, code signing is important whether onsite or off-.

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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I completely agree with the sentiment, but my gut says this acquisition isn't about Trello becoming a part of Atlassian but rather Atlassian trying to venture away from their set of dev tools. Why, you ask? As a recently public company Atlassian knows it'll need to grow beyond developers if they want to continue growing at a healthy rate, and Trello offers that exactly. I believe that's why they paid such a hefty pri…

> As a recently public company Atlassian knows it'll need to grow beyond developers Why is that? Why does a company that is good at something NEED to expand beyond their area of expertise? Is is just me who sees this as American Capitalism™? Wouldn't it be better to try to make their products excellent and attract the many developers who are not using their suite? Why the always constant push to grow at any cost? I'm…

"If you're not moving forward you're moving backward."

It's true for any company, and even more true for tech companies. They have to continue to grow for many reasons, including keeping their existing products better.

I personally am not a JIRA fan. We used it for a while and it just really didn't work out for us. The entire experience was too cumbersome and unfriendly. However, that has nothing to do with them growing. If anything, they're doing an amazing job growing with a product that isn't fun to use at all.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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it has worked out for instagram so far - no ?

How many handcuffs have expired?

It has been over 4 years, so I imagine most of them have.

http://www.businessinsider.com/its-been-1-year-since-faceboo...

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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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.

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…

  The (Startup)ists made (Startup). And the (Startup)ists are going to 
  keep working on (Startup) at (Acq. Company). (Acq. Company) understands 
  that (Startup) is unique and beloved and they definitely do not   
  want to mess that up.
It's Startup Acquisition Madlibs.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Great acquisition for Atlassian and I'm super pumped for the Trello team. The people here who are concerned that the culture will change are ill informed and likely haven't gone through an acquisition themselves. This makes perfect sense and look forward to seeing what's next for both companies.

I've gone through an acquisition and understand the fears, but I think Atlassian's track record doesn't warrant panicking in the way Oracle's or Yahoo's would.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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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.

What about celebrating this as a success?

All these negative comments and hand wringing about Trello being ruined sounds like whining entitlement.

Atlassian is a fabulously successful independently run company that you should be happy bought Trello.

For goodness sake all you haters in this thread make it sound like Trello was acquired by Trump Corporation or The Empire or something.

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Imo, GitLab is a more worthy competitor than BitBucket.

Genuinely curious why you think it's true. Can you elaborate?

I don't use it much, or rather at all so I don't have much to say. GitLab has a more appealing UI than BitBucket (likely more features too), they have a great team who hang out here on HN and respond to feedback very quickly, they are actually focused on just GitLab while Atlassian has a lot of projects to work on, and their rate of development is much faster.
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