<story><title>Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/atlassian-acquires-trello/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>JIRA + Bitbucket (and now + Trello) is a very effective competitor to Github among enterprise companies.  Github&amp;#x27;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.</text></item><item><author>hashkb</author><text>What does this have to do with h GitHub?</text></item><item><author>bhouston</author><text>This makes sense.  Atlassian is good at making money from its services and it is increasing its overall ecosystem here.&lt;p&gt;Github moves really slow in comparison.  I guess Github is more focused, but there are a lot of contrasts between Github and Atlassian, and in terms of making money I think Atlassian is doing a lot better.&lt;p&gt;Has Github acquired anything significant?  Github should have acquired Zenhub (which is Trello integrated into Github for the most part) instead of slowing trying to recreate it -- although I guess Github has better code purity if they develop it themselves, but it means they move slower.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baldfat</author><text>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.</text></comment>
<story><title>Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/atlassian-acquires-trello/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhouston</author><text>JIRA + Bitbucket (and now + Trello) is a very effective competitor to Github among enterprise companies.  Github&amp;#x27;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.</text></item><item><author>hashkb</author><text>What does this have to do with h GitHub?</text></item><item><author>bhouston</author><text>This makes sense.  Atlassian is good at making money from its services and it is increasing its overall ecosystem here.&lt;p&gt;Github moves really slow in comparison.  I guess Github is more focused, but there are a lot of contrasts between Github and Atlassian, and in terms of making money I think Atlassian is doing a lot better.&lt;p&gt;Has Github acquired anything significant?  Github should have acquired Zenhub (which is Trello integrated into Github for the most part) instead of slowing trying to recreate it -- although I guess Github has better code purity if they develop it themselves, but it means they move slower.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beat</author><text>Atlassian has cracked the enterprise sales nut completely. Github is still struggling with it some. Completeness is a big reason for that.</text></comment>