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by cialowicz 3445 days ago
They don't really have a history of doing that. Greenhopper was acquired and integrated into JIRA as JIRA Agile. Hipchat was acquired and now it lives on and nicely integrates with nearly all Atlassian products (JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, etc).

My guess is they'll keep Trello running for a while as-is, and slowly rework it to become "JIRA Lite". It will likely have Trello-like functionality with JIRA branding, and some sort of migration path to the heavier JIRA for companies that have grown a lot.
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mrbill 3445 days ago
> Hipchat was acquired and now it lives on and nicely integrates with nearly all Atlassian products

Except for when you run into a bug that requires disabling of the Hipchat integration with Confluence... You'd think a company could make its own products work together better.

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briandear 3445 days ago
Hipchat is a piece of shit. Inline code highlighting anyone? /code is crap.

Slack has more speed, better integrations, better search, reliability. (For example, getting notifications on iOS.

I hate HipChat. Apologies to those that love it, but it's likely you never used both side-by-side during normal working days to compare.

So if Atlassian tried to put their mark on Trello, I have little confidence that it will still be Trello.

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cialowicz 3445 days ago
I used HipChat for two and a half years in a previous role, and have been using Slack daily for the past 7 months in my current role. Both are fine.

HipChat is certainly not perfect, but I don't agree about Slack being faster. It definitely has its issues.

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