Monthly Archives: August 2006

Make Your Voices Heard on Wired

Wired journalist Ryan Singel recently created a story about wikis with the intention of seeing how citizen journalism will help shape the article. Seems as if many of the wiki vendors have been the first ones to notice the opportunity, but since it's a community effort we thought we'd put the idea to our blog readers. Check it out and contribute if the citizen journalist mood strikes you. Happy editing!

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A Better Way to Sell Software?

In the San Francisco office we all take turns answer the phones partly because we don't have a receptionist and partly because it's incredibly valuable for everyone to talk to customers and people evaluating our software. I've had some really interesting conversations with customers about how they're using our products, what they like and don't like, and how we can improve. Last week, I picked up the phone and found on the other end a customer who was less than pleased with the purchasing process. The

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Dextrus Prosoft and Atlassian Partner to Provide Atlassian’s Open Source Project Collaboration Solutions in North American and Asian Markets

Dextrus Prosoft, Inc., an open source services and solutions company based in Calgary, Alberta, has joined the Atlassian partner program and will resell Atlassian JIRA and Confluence. You can find out more about Dextrus Prosoft on the Atlassian Partner Wiki or by reading the full press release. Sunnyvale, CA/Sydney, AUS - August 28 - Today Dextrus Prosoft, Inc. and Atlassian Software Systems announced a new partnership wherein Dextrus Prosoft will resell Atlassian's line of collaboration and project

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JIRA 3.6.4 Released

JIRA 3.6.4 was released on August 22 and offers over 20 bug fixes and improvements. Check out the 3.6.4 release notes for details. If you're currently a JIRA customer with active maintenance, you can download this latest version today. Thanks everyone for submitting your feature requests and bugs, and also for voting on them. A big thanks to all the JIRA developers for their great, quick work on getting this version live!

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CMS: Sticking with the Tried & True

Here's an excerpt from an interesting article from University Business Magazine about colleges and universities having to choose between open source versus commercial products, esp. in the United States. Larry Bouthillier of Harvard Business School is cited: Open source is also widely popular in U.S. higher education, but IHE technology professionals are choosy about where they use it. They tend to employ it in smaller bits of programming (or in the tools programmers use to create and modify their

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Atlassian in a City Near You

Laurel just blogged about our upcoming User Conference sponsored by IntelliObjects taking place in Virginia. In addition, you can find us sponsoring, demoing, and generally wandering the floors at a number of other upcoming events: The first Office 2.0 Conference is taking place in San Francisco, October 11-12. We're sponsoring and Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes will be speaking. Given all of the very interesting blogs of late about Office 2.0 and collaboration, this should be a

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