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It's wild to me that they would acquire a company for $295m and then shut it down six years later. I'd be really curious to know if this is a failed acquisition
by haney 2y ago
It's wild to me that they would acquire a company for $295m and then shut it down six years later. I'd be really curious to know if this is a failed acquisition or if they think they'll be able to retain previous ops genie customers on their new products.
- jamesfinlayson 2y agoYeah I don't know what Atlassian's strategy was - presumably they were chasing growth and new customers, but I've never worked at a company that has paid for anything more than Jira and Confluence. I'm sure they have a whole list of other services but I've never personally known anyone to use them. Actually one company I was at did use Stride and it was truly awful - I don't know how its product manager thought it could compete without such basic features as... the ability to edit and delete a message. But some fool at the company I was at chose it because it was cheaper than Slack.
- progmetaldev 2y agoI was using BitBucket for a while, to have paid access to private Mercurial repositories. Once they decided they no longer wanted to support Mercurial, and go with Git, I decided it was best to cut my losses and move to GitHub's paid plans. Atlassian has not handled offboarding of products very well.
- jamesfinlayson 2y agoNo they haven't. BitBucket I'm guessing is their number 3 product? I know Mercurial isn't overly popular but I thought it was wise to have a point of difference to the other offerings.