Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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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