Tell HN: Atlassian now offers $10 licenses for most products. (for small teams)

http://www.atlassian.com/starter/?10dollarseach

by Timothee • 17 years ago

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Timothee• 17 years ago

The counterpart is that they killed the personal licenses, but $10 for that kind of software is very cheap anyway.

ianlevesque• 17 years ago

Except for Clover...the one I care about.

tomjen23• 17 years ago

Sadly, they require a host with J2EE, since it is written using JSP.

It doesn't matter if you have a company, but for a hobby project that kind of kills it.

jacquesm3• 17 years ago

Why ? Tomcat costs just as much as apache/php/python/perl costs.

tomjen23• 17 years ago

Well yes, but I have been unable to find a host for tomcat the way you could find a host for, say php.

Quite understandable for the market they operate in, but a bit unfortunate for the hobby projects that might benefit from them.

cmelbye2• 17 years ago

You obviously haven't run JIRA and Confluence before. They take up a lot of memory and resources, certainly more than a low end VPS can handle.

jeduan• 17 years ago

Honest question: how are these products better than, for example redmine and MediaWiki, if using them for personal/small team purposes?

shizcakes• 17 years ago

I had the same exact thought, not in a disparaging way, but if there's better stuff available, it'd be nice to know about it.

cmelbye2• 17 years ago

I find Confluence a lot nicer than MediaWiki. It's much better organized (organizing pages in Confluence seems built in, MediaWiki's "category" feature seems like an afterthought). Confluence also has useful features for collaboration with things like status updates. I'd give the free trial a go, and compare to see which one works best for you.

teamonkey• 17 years ago

I (and a few others) posted a reply to this question in a similar thread from a few days ago. Here's the link.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=867439

jeremyw• 17 years ago

Wow, this reads less like freemium and more that they're using enterprise customers to bludgeon innovation out of the market. This new pricing is a pretty big step function, $10 for 10 users, $1,200 for 11 users.

While I like JIRA and have recommended it to many clients, this move is not just to feed the future sales funnel, but attempt to raze competition. Makes me sad for the cool startups (i.e. not Atlassian or Fog Creek) in this area.

dminor• 17 years ago

Out of curiosity, which startups?

I'm not sure this changes anyone's chances though -- bug tracking was already a bit crowded. They're probably going after the trac users.

labria• 17 years ago

About half a year ago they sold JIRA licenses for 5 users for $5, for some kind of charity.

lowkey• 17 years ago

We are using Confluence Wiki, Jira Issue Tracking, and Greenhopper for release planning and love it but I can attest even with only a few users Confluence requires more memory than a small 256meg slice can offer. We are on a 512meg slice with Chunkhost and are planning to upgrade to a 1gig slice due to performance issues.

Still, $10 each for 10 users is a great offer.

Tell HN: Atlassian now offers $10 licenses for most products. (for small teams)

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