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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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I think it's likely that people who use Trello appreciate the simplicity and Atlassian aren't exactly known for creating simple software (speaking as a past Jira user/admin). I had the same feeling of "oh well, what else can I use in the future" when I read this post.

You can try https://ora.pm

This is great! But it's fairly lacking in some features. Any word on release of API docs so devs can integrate their workflow into it?

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#72

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.

Same here. I love Trello for its simplicity, and lack of simplicity is exactly why I avoid Atlassian services...

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Atlassian doesn't have a reputation for shutting down services they've acquired.

Right, but they don't have a good reputation to start with. Somehow the only good things I heared about them came from people who made their money by building stuff they wanted to sell on the Atlassian platform. People less biased always choose alternatives. I can't say much about them myself. I only used Bitbucket, because of the free private repos. Their UIs are pretty mediocre, but I use it via Git cli, so it does…

So as a counterpoint. I used BitBucket a lot before Atlassian bought them. They were great, but toward the end suffered significantly from load issues.

After Atlassian bought them:

* The service I paid £5 a month for became free

* The stability issues started to improve in a dramatic fashion

Today Stash is a great product (IMO), and BitBucket has really improved from having great Jira integration.

I was actually sad because I couldn't justify paying for the premium features (multi-person private repos) in the same way, because it was nothing I needed. It was the best £5 subscription I ever had :)

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Can we all start using Trello clones as the tutorial substance? So in case Atlassian screws it up, we have 100s of developers that know how to re-create it? :D

https://zenkit.com for example. Really like it so far (not trying to run from Trello, as I don't use it much anyway)

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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JIRA + Bitbucket (and now + Trello) is a very effective competitor to Github among enterprise companies. Github's issue tracker sort of sucks and this hurts it tremendously -- I know as I live with that shitty issue tracker in an enterprise situation.

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.

Bitbucket server is written in Java while Bitbucket.com in Python. Those are two different products. That's why the Enterprise version supports only GIT.

Check our RhodeCode for Enterprise SCM tool that supports Mercurial too.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

#76

I hope they can learn from Trello to improve JIRA Agile. JIRA seems much better for software projects with organised sprints and large numbers of tickets, but front end performance is terrible and the overall UX feels like it could be improved significantly.

That would be nice. JIRA Agile definitely could use a push to get a better UI. It also doesn't support real world bug tracking well.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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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.

Fog Creek should still be the majority owner, no?
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