About a month ago, we quietly launched JIRA Studio. Now JavaOne is here, the official launching platform for JIRA Studio, and the time to be quiet has come to an end! We started briefing the press, bloggers and analysts last week and earlier today we sent out a press release (which you can find below). We've updated the JIRA Studio home page on our website with a bunch of new content, including a cool video and a revised feature tour. Best of all, we're featuring JIRA Studio at our booth at JavaOne, so stop on by and say hello!

But most importantly, we've been listening to your feedback, and have updated JIRA Studio itself with new features, new pricing, and a special promotion:

Data Imports

We now offer a data importing service when you begin your use of JIRA Studio. At no additional cost, we'll import your Subversion or JIRA Repository into your JIRA Studio instance.

Web-based Subversion Manager

The new Subversion Repository Manager allows you to manage the permissions for your project's Subversion repository.

New Volume Pricing

In March, many of you let us know that you wanted volume discounts on JIRA Studio purchases. We listened, and are now offering several tiers of pricing. Full details are on the JIRA Studio pricing page.

Special offer for existing customers

If you currently use one or more of our tools, and want to switch over to JIRA Studio, we're offering a 25% discount on your first monthly or yearly purchase. Details are, again, on the JIRA Studio pricing page.

And finally, here is the full text of the Press Release we sent out earlier today:

Announcing Atlassian JIRA Studio: What SaaS for Developers Is Meant to Be

Newest product gives developers an on-demand environment based on Atlassian's best selling tools

May 6, 2008 (Business Wire), JavaOne Conference, San Francisco, CA - Atlassian today announced the release of JIRA Studio, the all-in-one, on-demand development suite. JIRA Studio is a hosted development environment that solves one of the biggest headaches for developers: the deployment and maintenance of their tools. JIRA Studio includes many of Atlassian's award-winning products and provides a world-class issue tracker, an enterprise wiki for collaboration, as well as the ability to manage the code repository and manage code reviews.

A recent McKinsey report (May 2007) highlights the growth of software as a service (SaaS) because SaaS provides, "more frequent upgrades, a lower cost of ownership and a higher level of service". McKinsey expects that development tools will migrate to SaaS by 2010-- however, Atlassian is bringing SaaS to developers today. JIRA Studio fills that niche, integrating Atlassian's award-winning tools, together in a single secure hosted development environment, hosted by Contegix.

"Whether you're a development shop, a professional services team or an IT group, JIRA Studio gets your team up and running in as little as an hour and no more than a day" said Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO and co-founder of Atlassian. "Since we're maintaining the applications, our customers can focus on writing brilliant code and project management."

Highlights of JIRA Studio include:

Activity Stream: Inspired by Facebook, the Activity Stream displays real-time updates and activity from the wiki, tasks, bugs, source commits and code reviews
Project Toolbar: JIRA Studio is comprised of many tools which seamlessly work together. The Project Toolbar, available on every JIRA Studio page, lets you switch between your projects with only a couple of clicks
Product Integrations: easily cross-link issues and bugs to the wiki as well as source code and code reviews
Importing: import existing JIRA and Subversion databases into JIRA Studio

Pricing for JIRA Studio is $50 per user per month. Volume discounts for large deployments are available. Pricing is online at http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/studio

Users can log on to a demo of JIRA Studio at http://demo.jira.com.

About Atlassian

Atlassian develops affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate better. Its products include Confluence, widely recognized as the most advanced enterprise wiki, and JIRA, one of the world's most popular issue trackers for IT project management. The company has more than 11,000 customers worldwide, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations. For more information, visit: www.atlassian.com/

About Contegix

Contegix provides high-level managed hosting solutions for enterprise applications. We deliver proactive, passionate support that is unparalleled in the industry. We were our first client, building a reliable infrastructure for the hosting of our software development customers. That success led us to offer hosting services to other companies, ultimately matching our expertise in system administration and software development with a superior level of support that matched our original internal needs. Contegix is a national company with a hard-won reputation for reliable hosting, reasonable pricing and expert support that goes beyond managed hosting. With a focus on the Linux, OSX, and JEE markets, Contegix continues to provide advanced connectivity solutions, such as our trademark Beyond Managed Hosting® service, colocation, and managed application delivery. We have not lost sight of our founding mission - to deliver high level hosting, support, and connectivity for enterprise applications. Contegix is based in St. Louis, MO, with a seasoned leadership that has been answering the hosting needs of businesses for over 10 years. Interested in learning more please visit: http://www.contegix.com

Mother's Day is just one week away, and what better time to take advantage of our Bamboo 2.0 sale*! You got her flowers and chocolate last year, a new scarf the year before that, and the year before that you took her out for Champagne brunch. Why not this year getting her something unique, something she'll never forget!

One thing is for certain: Moms love Bamboo's Build Telemetry and new distributed build capabilities.

But why stop there? There's an entire set of tools you can get her:

• JIRA - great for managing the bugs, issues, and tasks in her life
  
• Confluence - for collaboration and knowledge sharing with the whole family
  
• Crucible - your colleagues may criticize your coding skills, but Mom will certainly comment that you write better code than everyone else (except for your Uncle Ed)
  

Take advantage of our volume licensing and get yourself some licenses** while you're at it.

And thanks, Mom!

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* Bamboo Offer ends May 31st. All other software regularly priced.
** Is Mom tired of licensed software? And you don't have time to install it for her? No worries! JIRA Studio is a complete hosted development environment that includes many great Atlassian products and Subversion!

If you're attending JavaOne, please visit us at booth #930 next week. We'll be demoing the latest and greatest products:

• JIRA 3.12
• FishEye 1.5
• Crucible 1.5
• Bamboo 2.0
• Confluence 2.8
• Clover 2.2
• Crowd 1.3
• and JIRA Studio, our new all-in-one hosted development suite

Also...
Matt Quail and Pete Moore will be speaking at the CommunityOne Lightning Talks track on "Which web framework?" and Conor MacNeill and Matt Quail are speaking at JavaOne on Thursday, their session is entitled "Pimp My Build: 10 Ways to Make Your Build Rock."

If you're in town on Monday 5th, please drop by Thirsty Bear at 7:30pm for our Javabloggers meetup. The beers are on us!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Chris Kohlhardt of Gliffy presents in the Theatre

I organized the Wikipatterns.com Theatre in the Atlassian booth at Web 2.0 Expo last week, and I'm very happy to report that over the three days 254 people attended presentations on wiki adoption tips, best practices, and strategies.

To everyone who attended, a huge thank you!

I hope you came away with new ideas and inspiration for how to use a wiki to reduce email, improve meetings, better manage projects, create documentation, and build an organizational knowledge base that helps everyone be more efficient, productive, and happy. (Yes, you can have happier, more satisfied employees!)

To everyone who gave a presentation, a huge thank you!

Introducing the Atlassian IDE plugin for IntellijIDEA (Eclipse plugin coming soon!). With the new plugin, you never have to leave your IDE to access and work with JIRA, Bamboo, or Crucible. The plugin is free and can be installed through the IDEA plugin manager.

The IDE plugin allows you to pull in and work with the Atlassian products within your IDE — youdon't have to switch between websites, email messages and new feeds to see what's happening to your project and your code. Check it out, please let us know what you think, and happy coding!