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Atlassian Expands European Operations, Begins European-wide Recruitement Drive

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On November 3, 2010
Uses €42M Accel Partners Investment to Fund European Recruitment Drive and Improve "Local" Approach Abroad Atlassian today announced a major European drive to recruit multiple in-country 'Ambassadors' throughout Europe. Additionally, Atlassian introduced a new crowdsourced translations platform - translations.atlassian.com - and localised versions of their website. Atlassian, an Australian-based software company with more than 20,000 enterprise customers worldwide and over 8,000 customers

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Crucible Starter licenses now available; and a new milestone reached

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On October 20, 2010
Atlassian's Starter licenses have been incredibly popular. These $10 versions of our tools have resonated far and wide. Originally conceived as an intro version of our tools for startups and early-stage companies, Starter licenses have sold into every size of organization in over 100 countries. Aside from getting fully-featured versions of some of the most powerful developer tools around, one of the reasons for their popularity is that Starter license sales are donated to Room to Read, a global charity

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Heaps of product updates… it’s a biweekly blog roundup

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On October 16, 2010
There have been many product updates in the last couple weeks. In case you missed the announcements, here's a roundup of the product releases and other blog posts from around the Atlassian blog network. Whether it's the launch of Confluence 3.4, the many features of JIRA Studio 2.3, or the public beta of Bamboo 2.7, there's heaps of tools to try out. We offer 30-day free trials of everything we sell. Let's just say you use your 30-day trial to try out JIRA, GreenHopper and Bamboo. You've

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Get 2 free tickets to Innovate 100 Los Angeles

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On October 5, 2010
Ever since releasing our Starter Licenses ($10 versions of our products, priced with startups in mind) we have sponsored several startup events — from the Startup Bus to Startup Weekend, and we even ran our own startup event last June, Starter Day. By providing software for startups and small teams, we've been hoping to facilitate a little more innovation. With this in mind, now we're sponsors of Innovate 100 and we're giving away 2 free tickets to the Los Angeles event later this month. Innovate

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Bi-weekly blog roundup

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On October 2, 2010
Q: What do the following things have in common? An acquisition of a company The release of an updated development tools suite Bamboo plugins A: They were all topics that could be found on the Atlassian blogs. Here's a smattering of what was published on the Atlassian blogs in the last couple weeks. We've gone into the code hosting business. You have code, and now we have a place for you to host it and share it. We're excited to announce we have acquired Bitbucket.org, the premier provider

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We’ve gone into the code hosting business

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On September 29, 2010
You have code, and now we have a place for you to host it and share it. We're excited to announce we have acquired Bitbucket.org, the premier provider of hosted code collaboration services for the Mercurial distributed version control system (DVCS). Bitbucket has over 60,000 users around the world and we're gearing to push it forward even further. You can now get free, private code hosting for up to 5 users, and for the next week, we're also giving away a 10 user subscription to Bitbucket for a

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