[zimbatm]

It's all speculations at that point but if the only reason to go to BitBucket is price then Atlassian is creating a community of poor/cheap people. The scenario for up-sell seems quite compromised in that regard.

Another thing is that if you're using open source products then they're likely on github. I agree that both platforms have a general feature parity but if you're going to interact with these projects often enough then it's better to stay on a single platform and avoid the context switch. Personally this only is already worth the $50-100 that our company is paying.

You can see that I am biased but something I would also like to point out: on more than one occasion github has prompted me to open-source things. When you reach your repo limit you're faced with a choice that you don't have with unlimited repos. There's a case where you don't want to think about it and just want to keep working as usual but for me space constraint is what keeps my home tidy.

[noir_lord]

I see your points but I'd note that "it's better to stay on a single platform" is actually perhaps not as good as it appears (all your eggs in one basket - for example when github went down the other weekend a lot of PHP developers where stuck without composer update for example).

The context switch is fairly minimal, underneath it is just git with a pretty web-ui.

The scenario for up-sell is absolutely fine, if you have less than 5 developers it's free, if you have more than that you start to pay based on number of developers, this is both more rational (you are paying for users not number/size of repo's) and easier to quantify.

In my opinion GitHub's cleverest move was making it free for open source repo's thereby building a good community of influential developers around their product from day one, this does give them a significant lead but it's not insurmountable (I'm old enough to remember when the first thing you did when you wanted the source code for an open project was head straight over to sourceforge) particularly as moving most (small) projects from github to bitbucket (or another competitor) is one git push.

[brown9-2]

The scenario for up-sell seems quite compromised in that regard.

Perhaps, but it's also likely that consumers are not Atlassian's primary target audience. They make most of their money selling JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo etc to companies and large enterprises.

Getting individual developer's hooked on free access to Bitbucket for personal projects is a great way to get those developers to agitate for using Bitbucket within their company.

[gundy]

poor is not the same thing as cheap

[zimbatm]

i agree, the / between both terms is supposed to mean "or in my text.