<story><title>Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/atlassian-acquires-trello/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanSrich</author><text>Is Trello really a competitor though? JIRA and Trello couldn&amp;#x27;t be more different.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d think Trello and Asana are much closer competitors. JIRA is like an over engineered spaceship with more features than anyone could learn in a lifetime. Comparatively Trello functions more like a Prius. Priuses and spaceships don&amp;#x27;t compete.</text></item><item><author>rb808</author><text>It makes sense mainly because Trello is a competitor to Atlassian and its best to kill it now before it takes too much market share.&lt;p&gt;edit: Yes right now there might not be an exact competitor but in a few years it could easily match everything Jira does.</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>farkas</author><text>We don&amp;#x27;t view JIRA and Trello as competitors.&lt;p&gt;JIRA shines in areas that (a) have workflow and (b) require repeatable processes across a number of people.&lt;p&gt;Once you have 20+ people on a project, you need repeatable processes.&lt;p&gt;In cases like bug tracking, project management, customer service, help desks, HR onboarding and hundreds others you need workflow.&lt;p&gt;Trello shines in areas where you have (a) small teams or (b) require ad-hoc semi-structured data.&lt;p&gt;In small teams, even if repeatable process would help you, it&amp;#x27;s not worth the cost of setting up a system - you achieve it by social means.&lt;p&gt;Trello also has many, many use-cases where you want to start something quick, or personal.  In this case it really shines, with near-zero friction to get started.&lt;p&gt;Scott, CEO Atlassian</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>ryanSrich</author><text>Is Trello really a competitor though? JIRA and Trello couldn&amp;#x27;t be more different.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d think Trello and Asana are much closer competitors. JIRA is like an over engineered spaceship with more features than anyone could learn in a lifetime. Comparatively Trello functions more like a Prius. Priuses and spaceships don&amp;#x27;t compete.</text></item><item><author>rb808</author><text>It makes sense mainly because Trello is a competitor to Atlassian and its best to kill it now before it takes too much market share.&lt;p&gt;edit: Yes right now there might not be an exact competitor but in a few years it could easily match everything Jira does.</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>matthewmacleod</author><text>I totally agree. Trello is not a competitor to JIRA.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong – I like them both. When I have to plan out personal projects, Trello is great. During the day, we use JIRA. The use cases are different, and the products are both suitable. I&amp;#x27;m madly bemused that people look at the very, very surface layer of the UI (oh look, it has cards in columns!) and assume the products are the same.</text></comment>