Atlassian
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Founder | Mike Cannon-Brookes Scott Farquhar  |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
Key people | Mike Cannon-Brookes Scott Farquhar |
| Products | JIRA Confluence Crowd Bamboo Bitbucket FishEye Clover Crucible JIRA Studio |
Number of employees | 220 |
| Website | atlassian.com |
Atlassian is a software company based in Sydney, Australia which makes business enterprise software, targeted at software developers.[1] On September 1, 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.[2]
Products
The Atlassian products Crucible, FishEye, Bamboo, Clover, and JIRA Studio are targeted at programmers working with a code base. Atlassian also produces tools such as its popular wiki Confluence,[3] and bug and issue tracker JIRA that are targeted more generally.[4] Atlassian is particularly well-known for focusing on serving Agile software development, as well as practicing Agile itself.[5]
Atlassian has been described as an enterprise social software vendor.[6] Atlassian products are not open source for the most part, but are sold under a license which permits customers to view and modify code so long as they don't redistribute or resell it.[7]
On September 29th, 2010, Atlassian bought Bitbucket, a web-based hosting service for projects that use the Mercurial revision control system.[8]
Company
Atlassian was founded in Sydney in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, who met while studying at the University of New South Wales.[9] The company made $58 million in revenue in 2009 and has 20,000 customers globally.[9] It now also has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Tokyo.[1]
The company was self-funded for many years, starting with a $10,000 credit card taken out by the founders, but in July of 2010 it raised its first institutional funding: $60 million in venture capital from Accel Partners.[10]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Atlassian". Crunchbase.
- ^ Thirty-One Visionary Companies Selected as Technology Pioneers 2011
- ^ Thoeny, Peter (2007). Wikis for Dummies. ISBN 9780470043998.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthor=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Sharwood, Simon (December 5, 2006). "Love grows in collaboration". Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ Abrahamsson, Pekka (2009). Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. Springer. ISBN 9783642018527.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Krill, Paul. "Social networking touted for software development". InfoWorld.
- ^ Asay, Matt. "The riddle that is Atlassian". CNET.
- ^ http://blog.bitbucket.org/2010/09/29/bitbucket-joins-atlassian/
- ^ a b Moses, Asher (July 15, 2010). "From Uni dropouts to software magnates". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ Tam, Pui-Wing (July 14, 2010). "Accel Invests $60 Million in Atlassian". Digits. Wall Street Journal.