Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

Re:Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M by athenot on Monday January 09, 2017 @12:06PM (#13357795)

I think Atlassian is indeed acquiring Trello to fit it in with the rest of their suite. This is probably going to be done to the detriment of the other use cases.

On the bright side, this might pave the way for a new product in this space, or some open-source tools which replicate the same basic funtionality.

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Re:Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M by dmcginty on Monday January 09, 2017 @12:16PM (#13357869)

Open source alternatives are already out there. Wekan is one of the more popular ones. I'm not sure if it has all of the features of Trello as I haven't used Trello extensively. https://github.com/wekan/wekan

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Re:Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M by wowtip on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @04:55AM (#13372865)

Looking at the screenshot it looks more like a ripoff than an alternative. I am an open source advocate in almost everything, but that kind of ripping of / stealing ideas leave a bad taste.

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Re:Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M by tbrock on Monday January 09, 2017 @12:42PM (#13358058)

They already have a closed source alternative built into JIRA.

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Re:Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M by iffycan on Monday January 09, 2017 @12:19PM (#13357884)

It misses a few of Trello's features (including keyboard shortcuts and checklists) but it's close.

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Re:Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M by tbrock on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:59AM (#13365773)

I'm not atlassians CEO but I'd like to think it would be cheaper to build keyboard shortcuts and checklists than to buy Trello.

Those features should take at most a month and cost at most $25k to build.

Yes there are other things that make Trello stand out but I don't see a justification for this purchase if not just to hire the team.

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