Guess we're closing our 200+ developer account, fuck atlassian, fuck Jira.
Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#762Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do all start ups have to grow at all costs? I know it's standard for most start-ups to accept as much VC money as possible and find ways to spend it, but there are also young companies that don't need VC money and are successful. Don't know why those shouldn't be start-ups.
Because we already have the terms "small business" and "ISV" to refer to small companies which are happily making small profits and not trying to take over the world.
Like Trello was?
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#763Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think the reverse would be true? If Bitbucket was not bought by Atlassian, it will be able to grow and compete with Github/Gitlab? If Hipchat was not bought by Atlassian, it will be a serious contender for Slack? Or perhaps the group behind those products reflected their growth today? Do you think it is because Atlassian's management or because local's management? Say if Atlassian hold to their words: "we leav…
> If Hipchat was not bought by Atlassian, it will be a serious contender for Slack? We can debate counterfactuals all day, but the potential was absolutely there. Consider: Hipchat was purchased by Atlassian before Slack even launched . (Slack launched August 2013; Hipchat purchased March 2012.) And back in 2012 Hipchat was almost exactly what it is today: A functional chat app with searchable logs, native clients fo…
I think you miss my point/question.
Have we ever looked the discussion from a different perspective?
This is fact: Atlassian tend to leave the acquired product alone.
This is question: These products that Atlassian left alone, why are they not growing according to (_yours_ assumed) potential? Have we ever asked that perhaps the people behind Hipchat maxed out their potential? Or perhaps the drive is not there anymore?
What I'm asking is this: Did Atlassian do something destructive after they acquire the company? or perhaps the acquired company just simply can't live up to their potential (for any reasons except Atlassian pushing their management to the acquired company).
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#764Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In case you missed it, Tower ( https://www.git-tower.com – not affiliated) recently got a Windows version. It doesn't have the same level of quality as the Mac version yet (which I've been using for years) but it's improving rapidly and I expect it to be production ready within a couple of months. It's taking relatively long to port because thankfully it is made a native Windows application. Not free, but well worth…
Tobias here from the Tower team! I'd like to confirm your assumption: we're indeed working full-steam on improving Tower for Windows (and Mac, of course ;-)
We have quite some exciting features and additions on the roadmap!
Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M
#765If anyone is looking to selfhost, I recommend wekan or kanboard on cloudron.io