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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 wwalser »

sethhochberg wrote: post #198
throwaway5752 wrote: post #104

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Funny how much opinions can differ. I've used them both professionally and I think Trello scales poorly above 5-10 people while Jira is the least-worst option for running a project at any team size.

The road to JIRA is paved with other project management software.

This has been the case for >5 years. Nothing at the enterprise tier is half as good as JIRA (some prefer "least awful") and nothing that's built for small teams gets close to the features needed by large teams.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by mhp »

bsparker wrote: post #377
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…

Will the Trello/Slack integration be affected?

We will continue to support integrations with all kinds of other tools (regardless of the fact that they may compete with some other Atlassian product). Let the people use the tools they want to use - if they don't want to use your tool, then make a better tool.

For example: https://slack.com/apps/A0F7YS3MZ-jira

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by wwalser »

BillinghamJ wrote: post #225
matthewmacleod wrote: post #172

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Trello was ridiculously cheap. I think you're totally out of luck if you expect anybody to make a clone that's cheaper.

$10/user/mo for Trello seems pretty expensive to me. It's a very basic product.

Trello, the head-and-shoulders best project management software for individuals and small teams no matter the type of project and despite the literal hundreds of competitors, is "very basic"…

A tool that could save all employees of a company dozens of hours a month for $10 is expensive…

Hacker News, what the actual fuck. The total and complete lack of respect for the art of design, programming, hacking, making, building, leading and creating software around here astounds me.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by jimbokun »

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.

I'm very satisfied using JIRA and Confluence at work. Are there better alternatives out there I just don't know about?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by dukedougal »

farkas wrote: post #410
creativityhurts wrote: post #333

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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

@farkas I know this is off topic - but whilst you are here can I ask you a question?

If we have built a product that is a (we think) great fit to the Atlassian customer base, who would we speak to in order to create a partnering arrangement with Atlassian? Does Atlassian do such business partnering arrangements?

It's not an addon for an Atlassian product so does not seem to fit to the Atlassian marketplace.

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Post by jjuel »

mhp wrote: post #366
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.

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 heard the same thing from Microsoft about Sunrise, but here I am still waiting for many features from Sunrise to get implemented into Outlook. Of course they also said they wouldn't get rid of Sunrise until all the features were implemented. That of course was a lie.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by cialowicz »

briandear wrote: post #434
cialowicz wrote: post #352

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They don't really have a history of doing that. Greenhopper was acquired and integrated into JIRA as JIRA Agile. Hipchat was acquired and now it lives on and nicely integrates with nearly all Atlassian products (JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, etc). My guess is they'll keep Trello running for a while as-is, and slowly rework it to become "JIRA Lite". It will likely have Trello-like functionality with JIRA branding, and som…

Hipchat is a piece of shit. Inline code highlighting anyone? /code is crap. Slack has more speed, better integrations, better search, reliability. (For example, getting notifications on iOS. I hate HipChat. Apologies to those that love it, but it's likely you never used both side-by-side during normal working days to compare. So if Atlassian tried to put their mark on Trello, I have little confidence that it will sti…

I used HipChat for two and a half years in a previous role, and have been using Slack daily for the past 7 months in my current role. Both are fine.

HipChat is certainly not perfect, but I don't agree about Slack being faster. It definitely has its issues.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by Sebguer »

meerita wrote: post #475
inglor wrote: post #432

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I think WhatsApp and Waze are both pretty good examples of high profile acquisitions that played out this way. I also feel like (and I realize many disagree) that YouTube largely kept its "feel" and didn't turn into Google Videos 2.0. Of course there are plenty of examples of exactly what you describe. I feel the same way about Java, Hudson (lol) and plenty of other acquisitions.

This is a minority sample of companies that survived post acquisition. There is a vast example of companies that doesn't.

I mean, it's a minority of companies that survive period.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by mschuster91 »

iamaelephant wrote: post #409
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.

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

Hi,

just wanted to address my hugest complaint about the Atlassian suite, in the hope someone here can use it for improvement: please unify the administrative UI/UX of JIRA and Confluence (and the other tools). Stuff is named differently, and placed in different positions. Even as a sys-op, it is not always possible to claim access rights to a space that another administrator created. And why does Confluence use JIRA Crowd for LDAP authentication?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by huckyaus »

gilini wrote: post #406
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #390

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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.

> there will be a hole in the market waiting for the next Trello and that's good too

Good for someone willing to take advantage of the market opportunity, maybe. But is it good for users that have to deal with their company churning from one enterprise to-do list to another?

Familiarity (or lack thereof) with software like Trello can be the difference between enjoying your day to day and finding it endlessly frustrating.

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