The title is highly misleading. It appears they'll continue to sell on-premises licenses that are not perpetual and have a higher base price in the form of thei

The title is highly misleading. It appears they'll continue to sell on-premises licenses that are not perpetual and have a higher base price in the form of their Data Center offering. They're just removing perpetual licenses for small numbers of seats (low volume). It makes sense that they want to push small customers to their cloud product, supporting on-prem software is truly laborious and best saved for your largest possible customers. That being said Atlassian is huge so they're either leaving money on the table or they're following the market. My guess is the latter. In my recent adventures over the last few years, companies much larger than your average startup are increasingly amenable to cloud hosted services. I suspect this is in part due to how SOC2 has become so prevalent and relatively easy to obtain.