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Meet HipChat, the newest member of the Atlassian family

Please give a warm welcome to HipChat, the newest member of the Atlassian family! I'm thrilled to announce that Atlassian has acquired HipChat — a transformative hosted group chat service that helps teams, or entire companies, collaborate in real-time. HipChat's amazing team, including all  three co-founders — Pete, Garret and Chris — will be moving into our new San Francisco digs to continue to drive HipChat's growth. Our mission at Atlassian is to empower product

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You did it! Atlassian raises $1 million for Room to Read

This post goes out as a massive thank you to all of our Starter teams. If you're one of our Starter customers, these girls get to go to school because of you. These girls. The ones in the photo. That is a truly amazing, wonderful, incredible thing. Thank you. When Scott and I started Atlassian, we wanted it to be a socially responsible company that cared for the communities it existed within. We never thought that with the help of our customers, we could literally change lives. Atlassian

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The Atlassian Adventure Continues…

So we made a little announcement today. Characteristically for Atlassian, we do nothing by halves. If you missed the news, we announced a USD $60M investment from Accel Partners for a minor equity position in the company. For reference, it will be Accel's largest ever investment in a software company. (You can read about it on TechCrunch, the WSJ, VentureBeat, Business Week, the Sydney Morning Herald...) To infinity... Scott and I began the Atlassian journey eight wonderful, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants

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Oh man, what a day! An update on our security breach

BackgroundAround 9pm U.S. PST Sunday evening, Atlassian detected a security breach on one of our internal systems. The breach potentially exposed passwords for customers who purchased Atlassian products before July 2008. During July 2008, we migrated our customer database into Atlassian Crowd, our identity management product, and all customer passwords were encrypted. However, the old database table was not taken offline or deleted, and it is this database table that we believe could have been

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AtlasCamp Keynote Video – Finally!

Thanks again to everyone who joined us in Santa Rosa for AtlasCamp (our three day developer-only conference) this past September. The event was a huge success and I absolutely can't wait for next year. For those of you who were there, you might have noticed that we were taping the presentations. If you weren't able to make it, I hope this footage will show you a little of what went on - and of course convince you to come to AtlasCamp 2009! Sadly - what you miss out on from the videos are the networking,

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Atlassian’s 20% Time Experiment

I'm happy to announce that we are undertaking a thorough, public "20% time" trial at Atlassian. If you've ever wondered how Google's famed 20% time works in reality, we'll be your guinea pigs and blogging the results for everyone to see. Why do 20% time? Atlassian has a proud tradition of innovation. We've always strived have market leading products, our internal Fedex days keep improving, we've won awards for entrepreneurial innovation and we try to never stop pushing the boundaries in our business. So

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