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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 tedmiston »

tiglionabbit wrote: post #397
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.

Nearly every company I've worked for eventually brings in the Atlassian bullshit despite my protest. It usually begins with hiring some project manager who likes Atlassian and forces the hire of an Atlassian shill to configure Atlassian products full time, but it never becomes any good. They pry us off our existing issue tracker and wiki (github, trac) and force us to use that awful content-editable-based wiki that d…

I once wrote a plugin that copied a Jira sprint into a Trello board and created all of the cards and labeled them to try to find the best of both worlds.

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Post by tedmiston »

jimbokun wrote: post #504
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?

Yes, several. GitHub + ZenHub is another nice combo.

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Post by [deleted] »

jimbokun wrote: post #513
briandear wrote: post #426

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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…

Ah, another reason I like JIRA more than people on here criticizing it. Most things in our JIRA deployment are configured to just allow anyone to change anything, with only a few exceptions. Locking things down like that is the project manager's way of making sure people are constantly blocked and work isn't getting done. Not sure why some project manager's try so hard to create this state of affairs.

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by tedmiston »

edraferi wrote: post #300
chinhodado wrote: post #283

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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.

Really? I'm pretty happy with it. Definitely better than Github desktop, and more full featured than the light git extensions you find in most editors. What Git GUI do you prefer?

> Definitely better than Github desktop

Not really a fair comparison: SourceTree targets professional devs while GitHub Desktop caters to making git + GitHub simple for beginners. I like the client personally, but it isn't a daily driver. Beyond absolute basics the feature set is totally different.

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Post by rangibaby »

inglor wrote: post #432
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 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.

Google tried to mess with Youtube but mainly gave up after it was a massive disaster.

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Post by cyberferret »

axtscz wrote: post #609
edraferi wrote: post #300

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Really? I'm pretty happy with it. Definitely better than Github desktop, and more full featured than the light git extensions you find in most editors. What Git GUI do you prefer?

Gitkraken is amazing

Except that they have recently done an about turn on their licensing, and what used to be a FREE product is now a charge for product.

No problems with paying for a product, but the way they went about the switch left a sour taste, so I went back to SourceTree.

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Post by cellularmitosis »

xiaoma wrote: post #562
throwawaymaroon wrote: post #441

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That's a terrible example. Remember Google+ accounts and Youtube?

I still haven't gotten any assistance from Google after losing my YouTube account when my f#@!ing plus account (which I didn't even want) spawned another account from the gmail address I'd signed up before Google bought them. Plus was the real turning point where I went from loving Google to tolerating them.

I also lost access to my first YouTube account. That was the first time my faith in the cloud had been shaken.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by shimms »

wwalser wrote: post #552
jedahan wrote: post #332

Can anyone point me to any acquisition that resulted in a net benefit to the customers of either company/product? Or maybe I should not consider the users of a product the primary customers?

Atlassian: Confluence - Went from very small user base to hundreds of thousands of users. It's a great tool for internal content management (think HR docs, decision documentation, meeting notes, etc.). HipChat - Small user base and unscalable architecture. Hundreds of thousands of users and loads of resources to rewrite nearly all of it's backend. Still a work in progress but it's been very stable for the past year a…

Small detail: Confluence wasn't an acquisition, but Atlassian's second product (JIRA was their first).
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