| You seem to still believe that Techcrunch is journalism? I thought everyone learned a decade ago that it is a PR content farm thinly masquerading as journalism. Almost certainly the journalist for this is known to someone on the Atlassian media relations team[1], assured them friendly coverage in (unstated, quid pro quo) exchange for future access and exclusives, and then the PR team provided them some copy as "background" for the article. [1]: We can check this guess by looking at his previously publications about Atlassian: - He announced the "next generation of hosted Jira Software" - He announced new & improved integration between Jira & Github - He announced the acquisition of OpsGenie - He announced the launch of Bitbucket Pipelines He's almost certainly been "friendly" with Atlassian marketing for at least 5 years, based on his publication history. So they call him whenever they have something new to announce and he publishes some click bait. It is win-win. After all, this is the article that made it the front page of HN...not any other article about the acquisition. |