Trello Is Being Acquired by Atlassian

It seems like a bit too early for Trello to be acquired, and kind of weird to be acquired by Atlassian, though both companies are in making team collaboration products. Sentimentally, I'll miss that Trello is no longer directly tied to Fog Creek, Joel Spolsky, etc.

>In short: you can expect Trello to become even more awesome and more fun than it is today. We’re as committed to our original vision and brand as we were on launch day but we now have more firepower to fulfill that mission. We will continue operating as a standalone service, and we will continue to integrate deeply with all of the tools available out there that help people collaborate (and you can look forward to some great integrations with HipChat, Confluence and JIRA).

Acquired companies usually put up very bold and optimistic statements about being independent, becoming much better, and so on. I guess we'll have to wait and see how it turns out. I'm looking for alternatives just to be prepared for what may come.

This is a dupe.

* Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M | Hacker News || https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13356318

Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13356318

Atlassian has a pretty good track record of absorbing products and keeping them independent. Hipchat and bitbucket come to mind. This should be good for Trello.