Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
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Re: Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
#2that looks like a killing blow.
Re: Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
#3This just makes me extremely sad.
Server products is what made us purchase Atlassian software. There are numerous reasons why our company (and a lot of other companies I presume) would like to avoid cloud. And if we really had to go cloud, I simply don't see why we would choose Atlassian over alternatives.
Re: Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
#4Smells of opportunity to me.
Re: Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
#5Wow. This must feel like a huge fuck-you to people that migrated to Atlassian because they could host things locally (I worked at a place that made the leap 3 years ago and it was a somewhat controversial decision. I feel kinda bad for everyone that'll be hearing an "I told you so" on Monday morning).
Not only is the product being killed, they're raising the price during the migration period. Their FAQ also hints that even more price increases are coming. I imagine they'll lose a lot of customers that can't or won't send all of their data into the cloud
Re: Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
#6Following the Adobe playbook?
Re: Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
#7We're using Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket on-prem at our DC now, on some pretty sizeable VM's with good network connectivity back to head office.
Despite that, it feels very slow. Not the occasional 10+ second page load, where you've accidentally clicked something that happens to generate a cascade of cache misses. I can forgive that kind of infrequent performance hiccup.
But rather, regular usage, especially of Confluence and Jira, just feels sluggish when doing bread and butter actions - adding a comment to a ticket or reloading a kanban view, loading a new page or opening the search dialog on Confluence.
Yet, everything I've heard about the responsiveness of the 'cloud' offering is that it drives people to move to the on-prem server version.
Re: Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
#8Anyone got a good opensource Jira alternative I can install locally? Most alternatives are cloud as well.
Re: Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
#9Will they launch a local-first fake competitor?
Re: Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses
#10This sounds like a terrible move and will probably force all medium-size organizations I work with to ditch Atlassian.
We have the technical know-how to administer data center versions of their products, but we can’t do shit if they force potential customers to pay for a minimum of 40 000 USD for a license per product.
Many of these orgs have multiple Atlassian products so this will probably end up doubling costs on several products at the same time effectively making it a money sink and impossible to justify to their budgeting.
I would have been perfectly OK with DC taking over server with similar pricing, but this is just a monumentally idiotic greed-driven move.
Now small-medium-large organizations are either forced to pay A LOT of money for self-hosting their highly protected data or either use their cloud. The latter is out of question for almost all of the organisations I know.
If I was a Microsoft or another enterprise tech company I’d hire a thousand engineers tomorrow to develop a Jira/Confluence competitor before the grace period for server licenses ends. All that engineering money will pay itself back whent they can sell modern collab tools without tech debt from 15 years ago for a price we can tolerate.