In the realm of patent assertion, there is one man who stands head and shoulders above the rest: Erich Spangenberg. Of the more than 1,600 companies he has sued for patent infringement in the past decade, the most recent is Atlassian. Not that you’d know it was Spangenberg doing the suing; the action comes from … continue reading
Atlassian has officially set its IPO at US$21 a share, raising $482 million, the New York Times reported. The price is above the previously reported expected range, which was at about $16.50 to $18.50 per share for $370 million. According to the Times, the IPO price values the company at $4.38 billion. “Today is a … continue reading
Reuters has reported that Atlassian is aiming for US$370 million for its IPO. In particular, the company’s baseline of 20 million shares will be set between $16.50 and $18.50. The company is expected to be listed on the NASDAQ exchange before the end of the year, according to Reuters. More details can be found here. … continue reading
Software developers have had a long-standing love affair with agile methodologies. Now, it seems that the rest of the business world is starting to realize that agile provides not only a better way to work, but also an easier path to collaborative business development. Atlassian’s JIRA issue-tracking system recently split into two new versions: one … continue reading
Atlassian has long made a name for itself by selling the highly targeted, highly configurable issue-tracking system known as JIRA. Today, the company announced that it has built two new versions of the software, making them available for more than just software developers. Software developers can still use JIRA Software, which is the distribution of … continue reading
The DevOps movement is gaining momentum, albeit at different speeds in different organizations. While the goal has been to streamline workflows between development and operations teams, there are a number of technological and cultural challenges companies have to address to optimize DevOps, and more importantly the entire software life cycle. If you’re confused about how … continue reading
Typically, this time of year is when Atlassian hosts its developer and user summit in San Francisco. Those dates were pushed back a few months due to scheduling issues, but that didn’t stop Atlassian from releasing road-map information for Bitbucket, as well as new customer information about the platform and product. Eric Wittman, vice president … continue reading
Atlassian has announced the release of Connect for Bitbucket, a new solution that turns Bitbucket into a development platform. Bitbucket is the company’s source code-management and collaboration solution, and Connect for Bitbucket allows developers to build and embed add-ons right into the Bitbucket UI. Add-ons can be built in any programming language and can include … continue reading
Git is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. The distributed version control system, created by Linus Torvalds, debuted in April 2005, and since then it has been providing teams of all sizes with easier code reviews, flexible workflows and cost-effective local branching, according to Eric Wittman, general manager of developer tools at Atlassian. “Git provides a lot … continue reading
Google has launched the Places API for Android as well as a beta program for the Places API for iOS. The release of these APIs is meant to provide developers with the ability to enhance their mobile experiences through device location signals. “People don’t think of their location in terms of coordinates on a map. … continue reading
Businesses want to stay competitive, but in today’s world of software development it can be a struggle. In order to be successful, businesses need to deliver software that loads quickly, performs well, and provides a great user experience, and they have to do it fast. It is no longer acceptable for a business to deliver … continue reading
For years businesses have been practicing agile, seeing notable success in time to market, productivity and creativity at the team level. Now they want to expand the scope of those benefits. If you asked development teams a year or two ago to identify the biggest agile obstacle, most of them would have said getting management … continue reading
