{"id":220,"date":"2006-11-29T18:02:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T01:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/atlassian-a-company-i-hold-in-high-esteem\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T01:02:01","slug":"atlassian-a-company-i-hold-in-high-esteem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/atlassian-a-company-i-hold-in-high-esteem\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlassian: A company I hold in high esteem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/\">Atlassian<\/a>, makers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/software\/jira\/\">Jira<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/software\/confluence\/\">Confluence<\/a>, is an exceptional company in my opinion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They make a solid product that gives users the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/creating_passionate_users\/2005\/03\/can_you_have_to_1.html\">I kick ass<\/a>&#8221; feeling.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>They understand the benefit of making it easy to BUY software, instead of SELLING software to people.&nbsp; You can eval their product and purchase it on your CC and expense it.&nbsp; No stiff suits and long high touch sales cycles.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnolen.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/the_open_compan.html\">open<\/a>.&nbsp; They have open APIs, plugins, modules, web services, work with about any app server\/db, have transparent discussions about product\/features\/bugs in public.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re &#8220;open source &#8212; eee&#8221; without an open source license.&nbsp; They are all the great things about community, openness, flexibility, and choice; they are NOT themselves open source but contribute symbiotically with <a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.atlassian.com\/\">code<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/software\/views\/opensource-license-request.jsp\">free licenses<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re HONEST about their open source stance: We contribute to core projects, give our product for free, but we are NOT open source ourselves.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.atlassian.com\/rebelutionary\/archives\/000490.html\">&#8220;<span class=\"bodytext\">It&#8217;s really quite simple, Open Source (capital O, capital S) means that the software has an <span class=\"caps\">OSI <\/span>approved license. If it doesn&#8217;t, don&#8217;t use the term.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Young, smart, energetic, smart, focused, did I mention smart?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d been waiting to publicly describe my regards for this company but this just put me over the edge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>any Atlassian employee can spend up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/about\/life.jsp\">6 paid work days a year<\/a> working for non-profits or charities of their choice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not dogging the 20% Google employees get for any project, but WOW.&nbsp; What a committment to values beyond the bits.&nbsp; Really shows me that the &#8220;community&#8221; that Jira believes in is more than just lip service for software sales.&nbsp; They believe it.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos.&nbsp; I look forward to suggesting to everyone I know to purchase your product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlassian, makers of Jira and Confluence, is an exceptional company in my opinion. They make a solid product that gives users the &#8220;I kick ass&#8221; feeling.&nbsp; They understand the benefit of making it easy to BUY software, instead of SELLING software to people.&nbsp; You can eval their product and purchase it on your CC and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}