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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 jon-wood »

yeasayer wrote: post #33

Why did Fog Creek approved this acquisition? With products like Stack Overflow, Trello and GoMix I thought they want to become a big player on the market of software development. Why sell our own assets?

My sense is that Fog Creek is more of an incubator than a traditional software company now, albeit one which is incredibly selective about what they invest in. Stack Overflow and Trello are both independent companies which started out as side projects for Fog Creek, and I imagine GoMix will eventually go the same way.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by akjainaj »

zuck9 wrote: post #43
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BitBucket is owned by Atlassian and a competitor (the biggest?) to Github in the enterprise.

Imo, GitLab is a more worthy competitor than BitBucket.

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.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by robert_tweed »

Retr0spectrum wrote: post #46
rkrzr wrote: post #19

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.

At least one high-profile project is using it:

https://trello.com/b/gHooNW9I/ue4-roadmap

I know a lot of smaller dev teams use it for lowercase-a agile projects and I currently use it for all my personal projects. It's basically the antithesis of heavyweight tools like Jira.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by eli »

rkrzr wrote: post #19

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?

I'm sure plenty of hipchat users (most?) aren't dev teams either.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by colinbartlett »

joemaller1 wrote: post #62

I'm a big fan of Trello but I dread using Atlassian products. I do not have a good feeling about this. Hopefully Atlassian can learn from what makes Trello so wonderful instead of JIRA-ifying it into oblivion.

I feel the same, but I also think that the products and ecosystems are so different that there's hope they might keep them separated.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by daxelrod »

yeasayer wrote: post #33

Why did Fog Creek approved this acquisition? With products like Stack Overflow, Trello and GoMix I thought they want to become a big player on the market of software development. Why sell our own assets?

Fog Creek's model tends to involve spinning off their runaway hits into separate companies. They've done this with StackOverflow and Trello. Trello has been an independent company since 2014. (Although I'm not sure what kind of ownership position Fog Creek had).

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by maxxxxx »

egeozcan wrote: post #53
baldfat wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally all my own projects are on bitbucket. They were the first to provide free unlimited private repos and just has a great set of tools. So my personal preference is bitbucket over github.

They also support Mercurial, which I personally find to be a way better scm tool than git. Not trying to start the classic hg vs git debate, just saying that it's great to have the option.

For some reason the enterprise version doesn't support mercurial, it's only git.
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