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In 2001, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar thought “Let’s sell an equivalent to the dozen of free open-source bugtrackers, but for a price.” Today Atlassia
by laurent92 6y ago
In 2001, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar thought “Let’s sell an equivalent to the dozen of free open-source bugtrackers, but for a price.” Today Atlassian is worth about $60bn, they owned about 75%.
- DrBazza 6y agoAnd it's ripe for a lightweight alternative that gets customers that want the fast, basic set of bug tracking features. Jira is horrific.
- laurent92 6y agoPeople have always said that ;) but Jira is super-expensive. It was $60 per user (permanent), and they’ve increased the prices a lot. Especially since you buy Confluence and all the little addons separately.
- thitcanh 6y agoHorrific but people keep buying it. From Jira’s owner POV, Jira is pretty great.
- mritchie712 6y agohttps://linear.app/ https://linear.app/
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- TameAntelope 6y agoI find the most common source of Jira-hate is a combined refusal to leave many of its features on the table by management and general ignorance about how little Jira actually imposes on you by the gangpressed users. Most of that bloat you have to deal with? Blame your bosses, not Atlassian.
- Nullabillity 6y agoJira is a bloated piece of garbage out of the box. It doesn't need PHB configuration to get there.
- servercobra 6y agoExactly. Brand new project, no configuration? Runs like trash. And then you add in all the manager/PM overhead.
- TameAntelope 6y agoNot my experience at all, have you used Jira in the last 5 years?
- Nullabillity 6y agoI have. New account, greenfield project, the org had never touched it before, and we only had a double-digit number of issues. Every page load still took 30+ seconds.
- TameAntelope 6y agoJira Cloud?
- Nullabillity 6y agoYup. About a year ago.
- TameAntelope 6y agoYeah, I think that was a widespread issue, fair enough.
- albedoa 6y agoWhy, is not using it recently the second most common source of Jira hate?
- radicalriddler 6y agoEspecially now that Jira is removing it's self hosted option, someone should be able to come and fill that niche. It'd be surprising to me if that niche is unmaintainable these days.
- DrBazza 6y agoThe irony isn't lost on me, that at a previous employer, back in the early 2000s, I introduced the self-hosted version of Jira in to the company, because the alternatives were so bad and slow. How history repeats itself.