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by jschumacher 3084 days ago
> I'm a jaded Atlassian user who believes they buy competition and then stagnant the product's evolution.

What product do you think Atlassian has bought to stifle it's evolution? Bitbucket specifically was a product with 50k users and Atlassian has grown it to Millions. Buying a competitor just to let the product stagnate and die makes rarely sense in business.
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SanDimasFootbal 3081 days ago
I’m certain no one at Atlassian wants to stifle Trello. Trello is Atlassian’s Instagram.

By the way did you see Trello is now part of Bitbucket as a default?

What exactly was HipChat competing with in the Atlassian portfolio when it was acquired? Nothing. HipChat was three people when it was acquired. It was over 100 not long after. That space grew so fast that you could argue maybe Atlassian should have put 200 on it. Regardless, it got the biggest investment of any group chat tool in the game at that time. Slack did an amazing job in the viral growth front. Credit to them. Atlassian is beefing up HipChat for enterprise/BTF and launched Stride for everyone with an email address and a need for something more focused than slack.

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olingern 3083 days ago
Trello is what came to mind at first. It made more sense to buy it, rather than it being competition to Jira.

Hipchat could have easily taken the space that Slack exists in. Lack of product vision and resources dedicated to the project ultimately led a non-existent competitor to own the entire market.

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